DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

WAR PENSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Assooiatloß. Wellington, Last Night. The War Pensions Board has handled 335 cases up to the present. The work of the Board is summarised as follows: Pensions granted 142 (soldiers 14, dependents 128); allowances made 19 (soldiers 10); applications declined 49 (soldiers 20, dependents 29); applications adjourned 22 (soldiers 12, dependents 10) ; applications on hand 108 (soldiers 10, dependents 93); totals, soldiers 75, dependents 200. The number of pensions granted haa been 142, the total annual cost being £7408, and the average annual amount £52. Fifteen allowances amount tfl| £560 annuallv.

AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT. Wellington, Last Night. The Prime Minister referred to-day t® the statement that vacancies in tto railway service, caused by the departure of men for the front, wera being filled by men of military age, often new arrivals in the Dominion. He said that the statement was without foundation. When casual vacancies occurred they were filled by any men available, local workers being on an equality with othorß, but the 1400 members of tbe railway H-rvice who had gone into the forces had all been told that they would have their positions on their return, and that their period of service with the forces would count as railway service tor the purposes of promotion and supw» annuation.