BRITISH OLP AGE PENSIONS
A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.
AN INTERIM REPORT
United Press Association —Copyright (Received May 14, 11.45 p.m.)
LONDON, May 14
Mr. C. E. 11. Hobhouse, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, stated in tho House of Commons that since January 1300 pensions had been withdrawn in Britain and 1200 in Ireland. The inquiry whs unfinished, but so far any suggestion of fraud on the part of people in Ireland was without foundation.
Mr. Birrell stated that out of 12,776 appeals 10,891 had boon rejected and 18S5 pensions granted. The Nationalists hotly attacked the Government for ordering the investigation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2502, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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100BRITISH OLP AGE PENSIONS Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2502, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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