WAR PENSIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 5

WAR PENSIONS.

OVER £300,000 ANNUALLY. The cost to the Dominion of war pen sions is steadily mounting up (observes the Dominion). Last week 111 new pensions were granted, representing an annual value of £6366. tip to Mlrch 61 last the total annual value of pen£2"nrimante^ wa! H ,round fig" 68! £2/0,000. From April 1 to date 18 soldiers pensions have been granted of an annual value of £799 averaging £44 a year Thirty-two widows (with 4o children) have been granted pensions of an annual value of £2785 average, £87 a yeai c and 111 other de pendents have been granted pensions 'iQ?n eg£t mg, £3537 a year-average, ±,<SW. Ihe temporary soldiers' pensions number 453; annual value £34,084 • average, £75. At end of last financial a or !i averag© soldiers' pension was I bod; the average is now £75 a year- as against a maximum pension of £95 a ?f ar iL-iiFifty;five wives of soldiers with 84 children have been granted pensions C «oApril L Theße Pensi°ns aggregate £d 162, or an average of £48 per pension. c In all 679 pensions and allowances have been granted since the beginning ot the financial year, with a total annual value of £44,367; average £65 a year. Including the £270,000 granted last year, the net liability of the State to date is. roughly, £314,000 a year