WAR PENSIONS BOARD.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14153, 15 April 1916, Page 4

WAR PENSIONS BOARD.

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WeSftagton, April 14. The pensions and allowances granted. !>y the \\: :;y Pensions Board to date represent fill annrr.il liability of nbo-it €G<},<K)f). Applications from soldiers ;:!id dej>ondftnts are "bein:^ received at t!io rate- of over one hundred weekly. To last Saturday tinl .Hoard, roceived 880 applications from soldiers, 702 from dependents. The .Board's decisions were: Soldiers, ?04 pensions, 287 allowances. 92 dfH-line.uS t?l adjourned, S2 in iiand ; dependents, 501 pensions, 11 allow-j-.r-cGs, r/2 declined, G adjourned, 42 in li.'md.' T!;e pensions authorised represent, an annual •charge of £40,770, inehidino- 304 Foldiens.' pensions. Animal diaries £16,004, average £52; 113 wives with children, £10,576, average £89 • 473 other dependents, £14,119, average £30-