WAR PENSIONERS
LARGE NUMBER IN BRITAIN. £54,030,000 FOR YEAB. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Eel). S. The annual report of the pensions Ministry .states that the total number of persons receiving war pensions at the end of March last year was approximately 1,370,000, comprising 24,050 officers, 470,000 men, 140,000 widows, 264,000 children, 471,000 parents and other dependents and 1000 nurses. This is a reduction on the previous year of 106,000, caused by deaths, remarriages and other normal causes. The expenditure on war pensions for the year was £54,000,000.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 February 1931, Page 5
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87WAR PENSIONERS Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 February 1931, Page 5
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