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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 201, 3 May 1915, Page 4

'' 'Tlie Hon Mr. Rhodes informed a reporter on Thursday that for the yeax 1914-15 the gross payments for ;pensions were:—Old agV pensions, £460,000; widows, 600; total, £540,000. The increases were: —Old age pensions, £44,100; widows, .£4,500; military, £18,100; total> £66,700. The increase recorded at the? close of the previous year was £31,700. : The pensions )i'n force at the close of the year were:—Old age r 19,368, an increase .©fi o\&'t widows,' ,1,792, an increase - : of t; 252; military, 1,392, an increase of,'jjgg?-total, 22,252; an increase of. 1,722. The .Tourist Department showed an increase of £365 in revenue. With regard to the Postal Department, atlhotigli''': accounts ivom all outlying districts were 10V completed, the'Tevenue for the year just closest would exceed the estimate by about £13,000, and will ; bji ,-greater. s .thaß that :for the previous'year when referring f& 'the merits of <* Tiki" Stout, say, "It•». : &s good. as-rEnglJsK Try it.* j