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OLD AGE PENSIONS.
PROGRESS RETURNS.
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. !
Tho Commissioner for Old Age tensions
has issued a further progress
return relating to new applications received
for old age pensions which*
figure out as follow:—
State of New South Wales, metropolitan,
districts—1527 applications,
310 passed.
Country claims received in Sydney]
—337 applications, 166 passed.
Victoria—2000 applications, 1290
passed.
Tasmania—1400 applications, 60®
Western 'Australia—120G applications,
29 passed.
Queensland—3S1 applications, S5
passed.
It Is pointed ont by the Commissioner
that in Queensland there are 470
persons who are pensioners under the
State law. but cannot receive any;
Federal pensions until the amending
bill now ibefore Parliament has become
law.
The small number of claims passed
in Western Australia is said to be
due to over careful and unnecessary,
detailed examinations conducted by;
the magistrates.
Arrangements are being made for.
swifter consideration of claims in that
State.
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