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Session 11. 1912. NEW ZEALAND.

OLD-AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS: MEMORANDUM AND REPLY RELATIVE TO ISSUE OF CIRCULARS TO MAGISTRATES.

Laid on the Table of the Souse of Representatives by Leave.

(Urgent). 12th October, 1912. Memorandum for D. Eobertson, Esq., Commissioner of Old-age Pensions, G.P.0., Wellington. Please let me have a return at once of the number of circulars and the nature of each circular sent by either the Old-age Pensions or the Widows' Pensions Department to Magistrates during the last ten years. F. M. B. Fisher. Old-age and Widows' Pensions Office, 12th October, 1912. Memorandum for the Hon. Mr. Fisher, Minister of Pensions. In reply to your memorandum of to-day asking for a return of the number of circulars and the nature -of each circular sent by either the Old-age Pensions or the Widows' Pensions Department to Magistrates during the past ten years, I have to advise that at no time during the past ten years, or at any time, has any circular been issued to any Magistrate by the Old-age Pensions or the Widows' Pensions Department. D. Eobertson, Commissioner.

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