PENSIONS FOR CANADIANS
A BILL PASSED. "Times" and Sydney “Sun" Services.. (Received July 13. 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. Canada has passed a bill providing pensions of £97. 10s sterling yearly for soldiers totally disabled, with £l3 sterling for each child. It is calculated that a two years’ war will involve a military pension list of £900,000 annually. Tho benefits are to be only enjoyable while the recipients remain in Canada.
Parliament hopes to arrange some system of reciprocity respecting these pensions with Britain and the other Dominions.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9095, 14 July 1915, Page 8
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