OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 5

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

WITHDRAWALS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. /

GOVERNMENT'S INVESTIGA-

TION

[press association.] (Received May 15, 0.3 a.m.)

LONDON, May 14

Mr Hobhouse, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, speaking in 'the House of Commons, stated that since January 1300 pensions had been withdrawn in Britain 'and 1200 in Ireland. The inquiry was unfinished, but so far any suggestion of fraud on the part of the people of Ireland was without foundation.

Mr Birrell stated that .out of 12,776 appeals 10.891 had been rejected and 1885 pensions granted. The Nationalists hotly attacked the Government for ordering an investigation. '