OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10306, 5 August 1911, Page 5

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

AN INTERESTING REPORT.

The import regarding old age pensions gives .some interesting figures, as follows:—; European (population; of Now Zealand, 1,008,470.; Maori popu'latiion of New Zealaiad, 49,343;. estd>mated European population 66 years and over, 46,586; estimated European (population 65 years .of 'age and .twen-ty-five yeans in New Zealand, 41,656; number of pension claims Hedged isiooe the Act caane into operation on s J^nao x :i§SQ; y 42,2,71; suuaberi of periisions graaiited isinc"& the' 'A<* came into operation on Ist January, ■1899; 32;433; (number of European. , pensioners on .the roll, 15,33(6.; Bram-* ''/Iter ;iaf OS&ori pensionsKß on .the: I 6Si; inrumbex. of; pensaonieirslin receipt o#fn&penision of £26, 13,986; percentage of 'these to total number of (pensioners, 87.0; amount paid in pensions during tin© year, £383,393; cost per bead of 'European population, 7ia 7d; total amount paid in pensions since the Act oame into operation, £3,150,404; cost of administration/ since the Act came into operation, £51,181. "A Jorge proportion of the applicants are still unable to furnish any proof of age, and as indicating khe extent of ttoie assistance (rendered rto (these in proving their eligibility it may be mentioned that in 801 .separate cases during the year out of the 2963 who applied inquiries were made at the head office for proof of age in all qiiartersi of the globe. Of • these 502 were found to be eligible, .while no liesa tWaii 114 were "proved to be short of the pension, age. In 116 cases 1 no evidence •■mas. qiHtaiiiabite, and the remaining 78., repi-esent cases in. which replies are. awaited from ; outside "the Dominion.