CIVIL PENSIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 2

CIVIL PENSIONS

> OVER £3,000,000 PAID OUT.

A large increase in . the: ’number ofriicivU pensions on account of the.-finan- ;' cial and industrial depression 'is revealed in the ' Annual report .of ' the Pensions Department for . ■ the, year ended March* 31st, 1932.- Economic necessity,: says the has undohbtedly brought forward many ap•lieants who in normal times would hot have had aid and; a return 4 to'normal increases of -pensions ca n oo- : - ly tbe looked for with a return to prosperous condition# generally, ' The total payments fisf .all pensions in 1831-32 ; amounted to £3,088,536, compared witKp£2j9D6,o49f' ifc 1930-34. ' jCtThe number : from •• £0,917' ;; ,; t^id7,l9B, r *ini;bidihg increases;, of '3322 ;; f n d 2715. in family ' 4-;aHowkncjW.' : ; The' cost of pensions- per. head of European ‘was £2 : sd, compared with Os 3d, while ; percentage.- post ;of i administration : paymehtß : was 1.80. pension payments totalled £1,261,7/8, an increase of £16,279 over the preceding ■ year. ; ..-V As .it is trusted that the corner of the economic depression has been turned, concludes the. report, it is hoped that .the effoitts of ..the Soldiers’ Civil He-establishnient Committees and, the employment officers will, meet with hot', ter Success* particularly if it is possible at an early date to place some funds at their disposal to agsist '»Tte work.