NEW ZEALAND PENSIONS
NOW OVER £1,000,000 ANNUALLY/ The pensions granted in New Zealand now total over £1,000,000 annually. The following table shows tho number of each class of pension now in force in. the Dominion, together with the total annual value of the same, and the amounts paid in each class in. January, 1918: — No. in Annual Paid in Class of Pension. Force. Value. Jan. £ 2 Old-age 19,782 482,680 54.780 Widows 2,147 41,759 5,018 Military (Maori War) J.. 1,147 41,292' 5,945 War 10,750 634,000 48,310 Miners 256 12,012 1,108 The annual value of the war pension does not include the increases under tho Finance Act, 1917; and in (ho case of other pensions ihe annual values do not take into account tho allowances under that Act. The war pensions granted from Ist April, 1917, to 31st January, 1918, are as: under:—Soldiers, 108; wives and widows (including 631 children), 471; other dependents 1,304; total, 2,514; annual valuu £&5,056. Tho soldiers' allowances total 4349; wives- and widows (with 674 cliil-' dren), 476; other dependents, 82; total,; 5581; annual value, £350,255. Pensions! and allowances together thus number 8095 in all with a. total annual value of £445,311. ;. . I
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 2
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195NEW ZEALAND PENSIONS Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 2
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