WAR CLAIMS.

NZ Truth, Issue 66, 22 September 1906, Page 7

WAR CLAIMS.

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Humors. Nine and a Half Millions Paid Away. An English blue book issued last month gives some amusing instances m the coursa" of a lengthy account of the distribution of. the South African war compensation, sums. One claimant asked that he be paid compensation for certain fowls which appear to have been killed and eaten; that £45 compensation for, war. losses be paid to him io? the value of eggs which the fowls MIGHT 'HAVE LAID had they not been destroyed; that m addition to the value of the. fowls. and to tho value of. the eggs which those fowls might have laid hqd they not been turned into aa "~" article of diet, he be paid the large sum of £509 for "moral indemnification" for tha loss of tho fowls and tho other property, claimed for. One claimant asked compensation for war losses to be paid him for "1 table knife, 3 pieces of bacon, 6 sausages, 1 tin of butter, and I A PIECE OF PORK," which, he said, he missed from his hous^. when he returned after a short absence. Another) thirty-seven years of age, who. was a telegraph clerk m the service of tha. late Government, and m receipt of £27 permonth, asked that he be paid £1600 as compensation for the capitalised value of pen-* sion rights. Under tho laws of tho Repub- a lie telegraph clerks had no pension rights.^.. Another asked that he be paid compensations^ for war losses for clothes worn and foocKj consumed while he was on commando. An-j other asked- payment for compensation foo? war losses for the value of property wMch/'i he had LOOTED PROM THE BRITISH, and which tine British recovered from hint--when they captured him> The foreign claimants, the commissioner.! assigning the compensation found, bad lit—-' vie regard to truth, and wkethter their. Evidence was sworn or unsworn made- no dif--; ference. One female claimant asked £655 v for horses and cattle. It was found that J -. the only animal she possessed : wag .• _ ; ■„._ A WOUNDED HORSE, •Wv" ''which had been' looted m Cape Colony, tij). i her fiance, a burgher-on commando. -Vj j One spinster , i'-Tdi9i h "loss of honor," becauSo the man with whoin_>» >6he was .Hying -had,.; during ■ jshe waivvbeew^ , deported by the military authorities. -„ Mr. Churchill stated- m •parliament ,pa.i ' Thursday, that the funds f or distribijtion. fo» 3 '.;w*r claims, £9^00,006, were all oihansted.