TO-DAY'S CABLES.
V but AGE PENSIONS IN' GREAT ■ppppp-. ■:■■__BRITAIN. '.-..■.;■. . | I
•':'-T THE FIRSTjkSTATISTICS; - ' '.'■'-■ (Received Sept.-'. 18, 8J55 a.m.) :-•-. . ' . 'LONDON, hursday. ', In the House of Commons Mr LloydGeorge;* Chancellor" of the Exchequer, in reply -to Mr 'F. V,crney, said .that the cost; of, old age pensions between January.llst and: September 2nd in England md Wales was £3,270,000; in Ireland £1,541^000 ;k in Scotland £593,000. The lumber "of pensioners were "respectively .410,000, 184,000, and. 73,000. Thus the pensioners proportionately to the population •were-11-to: the thousand in England, and.-Wales ;-42 to the thousand in Ireland; IS to the thousand in Scotland. .The "Times" states that.it is practically certain: that if the" House of Lords, reject-the Finance. Bill the Goyernment wUI accelerate'the revision of the elec-.toral-HTegisteT to November instead of January, and that a general election will be,held about.the end of November..
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 18 September 1909, Page 3
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