WAR PENSIONS.
BRITAIN’S HUGE TOTAL. rfY CAULK-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPY RIGHT (Received Dec. 31, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 30. Despite the five years that have elapsed since the end of the war 57,261 fresh pension claims were made-in 1924. The aggregate number of pensions' in connection with the war thus. far totalled 2,010,000, and awards to beneficiaries thereof numbering 4,525,000, but only 1,131,000 iiensions. were operating in March, 1924, when there were 2,215,000 beneficiaries, 265,000 being wives and 759,000 children.' About 36 per cent of the awards thus far made to widows ceased owing to remarriages.; The total expenditure in pensions in the year was £72,230,000, being £34,415,000 below the maximum of 1921.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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