COST OF PENSIONS.
LARGE AMOUNTS INVOLVED.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Timaru, Last Night.
Mr. J. C. Fache, Pensions Commissioner, who is travelling with the Medical Board, gave a reporter some figures hitherto unpublished. Up to March 30 last, he stated, the following pensions were granted:—23,l44 temporary, 2130 permanent to soldiers, 1517 to depedents, 2075 to soldiers' widows, and 5705 to parents or other dependents. The annual liab'dity is £1,860,300. Of civil pensions, there are 19,903 old age, 3444 widows, 939 epidemic widows, 415 miners' widows, 93'J 1 Maori War pensioners, in all 00,301 pensions, involving £2,930,968. There was also paid £OO,OOO in the Old Country, and £25,900 in Australia as war pensions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1920, Page 5
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111COST OF PENSIONS. Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1920, Page 5
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