OLD AGE PENSIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11954, 1 May 1902, Page 6

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

His Worship Mb. Brabant had over' 110 new claims and renewal applications at the old age pensions sittings yesterday to dispose of. The Court was crowded throughout the day. The deputy-regis! represented the Department. Numerous changes took place in pension awards. Some had to be held over for further inquiries, a few were rejected, and after hearing evidence, etc., full pensions of £18 were authorised in the following eas'ss : —Rosannah Webb, Agnes Page, Elizabeth Emery, .lane Little, John Page, Mary Watkinson, Esther Frances Leigh, Jane Nixon, Elizabeth Sophia Keene, Sarah Bachalour, Elizabeth Leighton, Ann Shepherd, Eliza Storey, Alfred Ashbury,. Mary Stow, John Regan, Rebecca Portia Harding, Martha Gregory, Bridget McGrath, Margaret Creevy, Hannah Egan, Monica Flaherty, Mary Butler, Lydia Turk, Charles.Turk, Wm. North, Leiitia Ann North, Alary Yates, Alice Murphy, Janet Miller, Jahez Whitcombe, Ann Whitcombe, Mary Grigg, John Ogilvie, David Mclbnoyle, Samuel Brown, "Mary Shaw, Elizabeth Phillips, Martha Brown, Margaret Crawford, William Knapp, James Wood, Robert Cawdron, Charles Gray, Thomas Hamilton, Benjamin Armstrong .Bishop, Lawrence Miles, Charles Franckot, 'Charles Robert Costar, John Buck, George Coulam, William Reid, Patrick Darken, Georgiana Maria Mills, Samuel Edwin Sheaf. The following lessor amounts were also authorised John Murphy, £17; William 'Whitmarsh and Wm. Henry Neale, £16; Ann Carswell, £15; Arabella Williams, £11; John Maine, £13; Ann Tilly, £12; George Coutts, £11; James Scott, £10; Diana Finley, £9; Thomas Donaldson, £8; Jane Whittington, £7; John Tucker, £4. The Court, after sitting until half-past six, adjourned to half-past nine this morning.