The pensions payable by the New Zealand Government at the end of October represented an annual liability of over £1,180,000. The actual payment made in October amounted to £120,852. The annual liability was made up as follows:—Old-ago pensions. £479,435; widows, £41,331; Maori war £42,084; war, £518,700; miners, £11,550.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 21
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