WAR PENSIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11574, 18 December 1915, Page 6

WAR PENSIONS.

AGGREGATE STEADILY SSOUHIIiiS "War pensions amounting to i'lS.lS-" per year and alltiwant'es augicgaiing £1617 Ivavo now been granted. arc distributed as undif: - Fifty soidiws iwivt! an average of £.37 per year. Eighty-eight, wive-, of soldiers killed or disabled receive £7 7{?(> } an a vera";.of £BB per year. • Two hundred and fifty oihey denendents receive £7iUo, an average oi' £::') per year. Ol' members of the forces who have .applied for aid. fifty have b:yni grant: d pensions, sixty have l>oon grants! a!lo'Waneos, twenty-five have been declined, cle,ven eases adjournd. and ilti "e are on hand, mailing a. total of 1 Ilk Of dependents 3?-i< have b.e" granted pensions, ono granted an allowance, thirty applications d'clined. lour adjournal, and niuetren r.re ( u hand. Only twenty-two rpniienlionr. are en hand, and the Tension'. Foard h-opcx to have these dea't with before Christmas. 1 his week six apjilicants were granted pousions. six were granted allow■anccs, two ense.s were adicnriied, and ono rjpp'Heation was refused on the ground that, the man was not disabled or incapacitated. One of the dependent, applications was that ef the wife of an officer, and the reason was that the "board er».>s'dcrsd that she had ample means. The, other was that of the wife of a Hdier who ia receiving £1 per week in consideration of his having lost an eye. The evidence was that the husband and wife were working as a married c.onple, and in receipt of good wages.