PENSION DAY
EARLY PAY-OUT FOR CHRISTMAS
10,000 CLAIMANTS
Pensions of all kinds paid out in Auckland total somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000.
Owing to the close approach of Christmas, pensions usually paid on the 23rd of the month were paid out yesterday, to enable receipients to lay in their Chirstmas needs, and claims will be paid out at Wellesley Street until the pensions office closes for the holidays.
In the Auckland pensions district, which extends from North Cape to Mercer and includes Thames and Coromandel, there are 6,500 persons in receipt of widows* and old-age pensions, and with the addition of miners’ pensions, blind pensions and military and war pensions, the army of Auckland pensioners is in the vicinity of 10,000. Each year they cost the State about £750,000 of public money. Except for the small increases granted blind pensioners under the Finance Act, 1929. the instalments paid out now are similar to those allotted last year. Yesterday, three or four very old men were present to claim the special military’ pension due to Maori War veterans, and a number of South African veterans were on hand for their pensions.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 8
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191PENSION DAY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 8
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