WAR PENSIONS.
THE BILL TO DATEWellington, Dec.. 20. Starting wii'i a, modest £13,910 in the financial year ll)ld-16, NfW Zealand's war pensions bill passed the, fiaJf-mHKon mark last yea'-, and reached a total of #742,585 during the first eight months of this financial 'year New Zealand has already paid ouS m pensions as a res«tt of the great WW ft sum of #1,552,329, and the 25,813' pensions granted iriv»lve an annual liability pf. £ J,7M,531. '' Successive improvements in the pension scale, and the more serious cases which had to be dealt with as the campaign progressed,' resulted in the average pension jiting from £4u in 1915-18, £53 the following year, to .£B7 per annum to-day The whole financial position as at KovemT)« so is sumpiarised as i'nlkwsi Annual Liability. Number. Amount. £ At March 31, 1018 14,497 901,383 plus new pensions, 1918-19. to Xov. 30 8,606 55D,220 Totals .... 23,193 £1,493,612 Less deaths and c a n c e llations, 1918-19, to Nov 30 2,352 1-11,000 Actual annual eost at present date. 20 841 $1,352,61-2
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1918, Page 5
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172WAR PENSIONS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1918, Page 5
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