WAR PENSIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1915, Page 8

WAR PENSIONS

RECENT DECISION'S OF BOARD. The War Pensions Board is dealing with about 50 applications for pensions every week now (says the Dominion), this being about the average rate at which applications are received. Some of the decisions made by the board at its latest sitting serve to show the view it is taking of applications generally.

Eight returned soldiers were granted allowances of £1 per week for specified periods. They are suffering from the effects of wounds or sickness from which it is anticipated they will recover completely, but at the end of tlie stated period their cases will be considered again. . The wife of one of the men was granted an allowance of 12s Gd per week. The husband was a laborer, and liis injury is a damagrd hand, which will probably get all right again.

One soldier, who had l.een a seaman, was granted a pension for life of £1 per wec-k. His hurt was an injured elbow.

Another soldier, who had hernia, was granted 10a per week. He was by occupation a clerk and he was in employment.

A man, giving his occupation as a milker, was granted an allowance of 10s per week for a given period. He is suffering from nervous debility and insomnia, from which lie should recover.

To dependents the following pensions were granted:—One grandmother w.n given 10s per week; two mothers, 10.5 per week; one mother, £1 per week: one wife of a lieutenant was granted £M per year (the maximum to which she was entitled being £104); the wife of a private soldier with three children was granted iH2 for herself and £39 on account of her three children. She had an income under a marriage settlement of 1120 per year, and also some property, wliitli, however, was so heavily encumbered that it might be useless to her.