WAR PENSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1916, Page 8

WAR PENSIONS.

WEAKLY 500 GRANTED. ANNUAL CHARGE OF £22,165. (By Telejrrapb—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Wednesday. Four hundred and ninety-one pensions representing an annual charge of £22,165, have been granted to date by the War Pensions BoaTd, also 98 allowances for fixed periods, involving an additional payment of £2,632. At a meeting this week the board dealt with 41 case. 20 being claims from soldiers and 21 from dependents of soldiers. Eleven were granted pensions totalling £527 per annum, seven received allowances for fixed periods, totalling £256. and two applications were adjourned. TNvntty of the dependents were granted pensions totalling ! £714 per annum, the other application j being declined. The following table is a summary of the board's operations to date:— DependSoldiers. .ints. Pensions granted 75 416 Allowances granted.. 96 2 Applications declined 30 36 Applications adjourned 14 j, i Cases in band 10 v Totals .' 234 470 The thirty claims still in hand represent less than one week's accumulation. , The following table shows how the pensions are distributed:— Annual ; iiPensions. value f Soldiers 75 4 JO3 Wives n6 S. - 41!) Other dependents.... 320 9,646 | Among the claims received this week was the first one made on behalf of the dependents of a nurse drowned in the Marquette disaster.