OLD AGE PENSIONS
OVER 650,000 APPLICANTS,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, December 1 (Received December 2, at 8.57 a.m.)
There are 367,197 applications for old age pensions from England, 195,138 from Ireland. 67,785 from Scotland, and 23.950 from Wales, or a grand total of 652,070. The total originally estimated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was 500.000.
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Evening Star, Issue 13123, 2 December 1908, Page 6
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56OLD AGE PENSIONS Evening Star, Issue 13123, 2 December 1908, Page 6
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