THE PENSIONS BOARD.
A WIDOWED MOTHERS' POSITION. | Wellington, May 2. The Minister for Defence has been assailed rather severely in some quarters lately in connection with the case of a widow whose "application for a pension, in consideration of a son killed at the front, has been declined by the Pensions Board. The Minister, as a matter of fact, has nothing to do with the 'Pensions Board. He is not a member, and he is not consulted in any way regarding its decisions. The particular case referred to by his critics is still under consideration by the Board, and it is in lint with several other cases of a similar kind, The widow says that her son contributed materially to her support, and that his death has left her in straitened circumstances. But she is in receipt of the old-age pension, and when she applied for that pension, prior to the outbreak of war, she stated on oath that she was receiving nothing from her son. The legal positon is that if she told the truth then she is not entitled to a pension now.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1916, Page 7
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185THE PENSIONS BOARD. Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1916, Page 7
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