WAR PENSIONS BOARD.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 7

WAR PENSIONS BOARD.

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, Jan. 27

Twentv-f-i^ht claims were dealt wrMi at a m<?Vtirj_- of the War Pensions Board lib is fIV-ek 17 from soldiers and 11 from dependents. Seven soldiets were granted pension:; aiitfvsix'alfcvviiiices. One application '■ wa;s declined •• and ■ three application s #&re iteM over ■"■■•.■ , Nine pensions were granted to dependent.^ One cla-m was rejected and one withdrawn-. • ■ . Of seven soldiers ' granted pensions,, five were given' £26 a year each. These were men'whose incapacity was slight. Two other applicants wore granted £52 a.year each,, thoir injuries being rather .more severe. .':••.. '''..'. . Among; the dependents two wives were granted the full" pension ■ . i-hreo mothers were avowed 10s a wcotieacn; a father was allowed 10s; another mother was granto-d £30; and a father and mother who had lost two-sons were-o-ranunl 15s a v.oek each; a mother wl^ rreviouslv had been granted 10s wee*d> had her "allowance increased- ■ to -los weildy on the production of addition^. tW T-xescnt time the War V*n.ions Boa 1 lL considered 255 claims fronl Soldiers, whereof 82 /hove; I>een SK^applications..Mve : been declined, ]3 bave been ndjoTirned, and 27 are ~ hind also "83 from dependents, ,43 bean / Jnlod allowances ' 3D declined,- 4 ■adVourned and 14 beingm .hand. The annual cost of pensions a^d. allowano^s. groin™ to «ie-pr«ent « as follows :—B2 soldiers draw. £4337, 98 W £Wn4 .Smother aepe^denjs draw £0371; totals, 007 and £22,-2. Ninety-eight alloiVances total £^804.