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to your Committee.
cases
'in &11 to 376 .. ag~~ 358 or'the p,....uug

.~e p~nt eD.~ta . and, regt1t~tioD.l
old age pension , date; 'mJ"",tJie,.'~nler
wben tim amending' Act. wu. . .p..ed,· and lU.,(8 COD~
iulted without luri.her dla.nge: Your Committee
hat. Powev~!', ' ~l¥ght. one hiodifieation needed ;u
the intercsta df tho (pensioners,' and" in .ro~er to
draw &tte-ntion to tb~ pass¢. the follomg resolu,~n: J •
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, Th:it the ~C!ldingI Wcal , Pension C,olUmitt~' lre
, o{ opinion U1&t. i when' cliildren or relatives
'suppdrting &. peDs{' ner~ by pco\ridinlt hiDJ

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.bpaN ~d lCd:ing. t~e value ·of this "oo.ai'tl
.lodging &h~md ,D O be t:rea~ ' 88 income _",,',-,- ' I
.the meaning of Section 2 (d) of tho Act 01
--Th:i9 ~lution w~ forwa.rded
tbcs Mj·inj,.t<,..
and the Depart.menta ,concerned in _N,o~"mlt>er

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The Committee appo.i.nted in 1913 wa. .
which h3.d ser'vM ~ the preceding' year,

again chose CauociUor Sarjcant as your cii'ii~"'.:n, L~i;:
A: vacancy ~hich oCburrcd la.t.er was .ftn~ by
a.ppoihtment of Coun'ciilor ~qriDg.
'The cues d'Ult w~tb jh()w.,; CJaUn&
claims d.ist!llol"ed. 2;; whil~Â¥ Ule 'fuestions
were 55. In regaM Ito th~ ~ID& Ji l¥Jowed,
w~rc 16 claimants, "ho h~ not pttained the
of seventy. and ten' whose JIleans .exceeded

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<cues., Tho pc.nsi9ns at
wer in .nuinber, and of the\;e
f the new pensioners 116
alld of tho latJ.cr ~number 93

was gra.uted i

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only. }
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P&nslons,hAJIII);led
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CCQdltl'in~~~:lt~:~~~l~~~:~~:;
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fOUndIng
bull"lng.;
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out ~f Berlin has bellI! •

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The ' porcent:age of tho provisionn.l pensions
ha.s .been rjsing ea~h ,year, ;a.nd n~w the.y are very
ne;trly ha.l,f of the:'PQusions -aUowed: .'
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- In piost of tile above deta.ils, if -till) year 1913,.14
is ' compared''i ~)tb the preceding, litt1e v/U'ia.tion l is
scen apart ft(hn. what bas been noted. :As thQ oirtuinstances of I the -pensioners, If ,
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Old Ag~ Pemioners.
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, 1: 1913-14. 1912-13f '
In' receipt of other pens16ps _ ~
.a.nd n.llo;Wa.nus ..... , ... ...... _
45
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' in ~~ssion Jf j&avings .. _.: .... 69 - 46 .
Earnffig vtages . ....... :.:... :._.....
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Mjlmbel'5 ?f friO}~Y societies... \ 71J . 49"

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ncl~ip~··it
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t ~~1~:~f.~ri~e~n~
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t~e tendency
due~to
incid~tal
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the a.gois of
156venty,
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ca~'applic~nis · ip-l~~,~iPt of poo'r -relief ~c~·30
as compa.rod. with ~ 'bt the preceding, year. Tliis

uP, .."t,..1 is not a.la!g~ number.· ~t one thue it was th.oU"l!hj, ·1

m~:;'j;:"J,,~~:;!;~h: tha.t on the a.pp;roacli of winter many_of lthe

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Fillan~.:;'anid there
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pensioners I (""puld 8~k indoor relief; givmg up
the ,while their old ! age. .pens~on_ , This ·was
borne out in the pilat year, Pf sucn cases
were , five in No~vem er last) and QU}Y_one in
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who~ wllS ,' celebrnting

Scal'boroiJgp, when tlie
is on6 of the best

knc,wnl ,Qf Y'''k,il\i,re,~ol',rgj!"c',n, wld' bas boon Vicar

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thb pldest son of tne
Oxford. t1n~d n brother ....,'
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somo years Liberal
-Ro w"s , . wol1' lmown ,I
Wi~clicstor ' cricket

cricket cleven a.nd
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-at Hartlepe;ol, thows that · a

Seve,al. AnB"ClI" _]'lurches, too,

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