PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS
SCHEME EXTENDED AT HOME
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 9.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Eeb. 12.
“The widow of a soldier who fought at Waterloo 115 years* ago will be •among those to obtain a pension under the newt Widows’ Pension Act,” said Hon. Arthur Greenwood ('Minister of Health) -when speaking at Hackney. . The husband was a lad of 18 when at Waterloo, and was over 60 when he married a young girl. Assuming that the hero married when he was 65 the marriage must have taken place in 1862, and if the wife was then 17 she is now 85.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 February 1930, Page 5
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106PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 February 1930, Page 5
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