WAR PENSIONS.
HEAVY LIABILITIES IN SIGHT. (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, June 18, New Zealand's net annua) liability for war pensions at the end of last week was £329,390. The sum represents a long step towards the annual charge of £i,OOfi,ooo mentioned by the Minister for Defence when he was placing his war pensions scheme before, the House of Representatives in 1915. The War Pensions Board has 252 claims in hand at the present time, and many hundreds more are in sight, in the form of convalescent soldiers who presently will be discharged from the forces with permanent injuries of various kinds. The pension claims that will arise from the casualties of this year and probably of next year are a factor that cannot bo gauged, but there is reason to believe that if the war ended now the annual bill for pensJbns would be well in excess of £500,000 a year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1917, Page 6
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152WAR PENSIONS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1917, Page 6
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