WAR PENSIONS BILL,
Starting with a modest £13,910 in the financial year 1915-16, New Zealand's war pensions bill passed the half-million mark in 1917, and reached a total of £742585 during the first eight months of last financial year.
New Zealand has already paid out in pensions as a result of the great war, ajfi sum of £1,452,329, and the 25,813;peniionB|P granted involve an annual liability of £1,711,481. • /
Successive improvements in' the pensions scale, and the more serious cases which had to be dealt with as the campaign /'progressed, resulted in the average pension rising from £46 in 1915----16 ; £55 the following year, to £67 p« annum to-day.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 January 1919, Page 2
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108WAR PENSIONS BILL, Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 January 1919, Page 2
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