OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 12067, 12 December 1903, Page 8

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

At the sitting of the Pensions Court at Port Chalmers to-ck'.v. before- Mr Carew, S.M.. Three renewals at £lB were granted. In an application for a pension previously dealt with in Dunedin and Port Chalmers, and adjourned for further evidence, and also on account of an anonymous letter, the magistrate decided that the £SO insurance money paid to the son was chargeable to the claimant as property, and that the other property was rightly charged to the wife. A partial pension of £9 was granted. In the case of a pensioner and his wife who had been living apart for fourteen years, the question was "raised bv the department that as the wife had "lately received a. sum of money, and had "been thereby disqualified from receiviny a pension, whether under the Act the'husband should not be charged with a proportion of that amount, there being no letral deed of separation.—The Magistrate decided that if Mr Platts, solicitor, who appeared in this case, would furnish the deputv registrar with a legal deed, he would, as there was no presumption of collusion to evade the purposes cf the Act, deal with the matter on a further application bt;ing made in Dunedin.

Mr Piatts appeared on behalf of two pensioners, husband and wife, wix> had been lately adjudged to be the owner? of property, and whose pensions had been reduced accordingly.—The Magistrate decided that the deed constituted a life-interest only, and that the pensions could be amended.