OLD-AGE PENSIONS. LONDON, May 14
Mr Hobhouse, speaking in the House Oi Commons, stated- that since January
1500 pensions had been withdrawn in Britain and 1200 in Ireland. The inquiry was not finished, but so far any suggestion of fraud on the part of the people of Ireland) was without founda- . tion. 1
Mr Birrell stated that out -of 12,776 appeals 10,891 had been rejected. One thousand eight hundred and eighty-five pensions had been granted.
The Nationalists hotly attacked the Government for ordering the investigation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2879, 19 May 1909, Page 19
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