DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1917, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

SOLDIERS' PENSIONS. I .GOS2 CLAIMS'DECEIVED. Wellington. Jan. 11. The War Pcnsious Department last week dealt with 348 cases. The total claims to date numher 3843 from soldiers and 2201 Crom dependents. The annual value of pensions granted to 'date is a? follows:—933 soldiers, |£49,059. averaj £52; 388 widows -and-' wives, £37,81u, average £97; 1381 other de r pendents, £39,664, average £2S; 2719 temporary pensions, £146,559, average £53; grand total, 5421 pensions and allowances, annual valuo, £273,095, average £SO. The annual liability is 1 educed approximately by £40,000 owing to eases being slruck off the roll.

MILITARY SERVICE ACi; DEFAULTERS WARNED. i Wellington, Jan. 11 .he Hon. James Allen stated to-day that lit had no intimation yet as to the number of balloted men who have not yet obeyed instructions to report to the Medical Boards, or have not turned up when ordered to mobilise. If there were any such men, 'he urged them to fulfil the instructions, as the Government have to carry out the provisions of the Act. He hoped, and much preferred, that the men should come jn of their own free will, and be treated as only absent without leave, instead of the far more serious offence of desertion.