SOLDIERS’ PENSIONS
NEW SOUTH WALES FIGURES Pres* As*oeiation—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 18. (Deceived April 18, at 10.45 a.in.) The Commissioners on Repatriation, in their annual report, state that the number of soldiers’ pensions had increased from 59,857 in 1919 to 147,508 in 1927. The reasons for the increase wore the absence of a time limit on the applications for pensions and the acceptance of pensions responsibility in respect to wives and children of incapacitated soldiers irrespective of when a marriage took place or when children were born.
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Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 9
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87SOLDIERS’ PENSIONS Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 9
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