WAR PENSIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1916, Page 2

WAR PENSIONS.

SUMMARY OF BOARD'S WORK. By Telegraph.—Press XssocluJon. Wellington, Jan. 19. Four hundred and ninety-one pensions, representing an annual charge of £22,108, have been granted to date by the War Pensions Board; also 98 allowances for fixed periods involving an additional payment of £2032. At a meeting this week the board dealt with 41 eases 20 being claims from soldiers and 21 from dependents of .soldiers. Eleven were granted pensions totalling £527 Jier ammi, seven received allowances for fixed periods totalling £25(1, and two applications were adjourned. Twenty of the dependents were grautcd pensions totalling £714 per annum. 1 he following table shows the summary of the board's operations to date: Soldiers. Depend'ts. Pensions granted 75 41G Applications adjourned 14 5 Allowances granted .. 90 2 Applications declined .. SO 30 Cases in hand ....• 19 II Total* v.Tif .- 234 470 Thirty claims' still in hand represent less than one week's accumulation'. The following table shows how the pensions are distributed:— Annual Pensions. Value. „ . . £ Soldiers 7.-; 410.1 Wives : nr. S4in Other dependents ,320 OG4O Totals • 491 '£22,l'fiS Among the claims received was the first one made on behalf of a nurse drowned in the Marquette disaster.