OLD-AGE PENSIONS CLAIMS
(Per United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, January 16. The hearing of the pension claims began to-day. At the outset a difficulty was revealed which threatens to injuriously affect a large proportion of the claims. Although the act enjoins that Government servants shall help claimants in every way, the Registrar-general does not read this to apply to his department, and he refuses certificates' without tho payment of a fee. Mr Kanny, S.M., said he had hoped that the Registrar-general's department would have been of great assistance, and he reooinmended t-he applicants to bring the matter before Ministers. Up to the luncheon adjournment only 16 claims had been heard, and several of these were postponed for evidence as to age or character. In nearly every case there was a difficulty about proving the applicant's age. When the court resumed in the afternoon Mr Kenny announced that the difficulty raised by the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and~Marriages had been removed, and any information required would, if possible, be furnished.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11323, 17 January 1899, Page 5
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