| Description | Whiston Rural Old Age Pension Sub-Committee Minute Book. The Sub-Committee is also referred to as the Pension Sub-Committee for District No. 29.
Includes loose inserts: draft, handwritten letter from the Rev. Canon S.A.K. Sylvester, Roby Vicarage, to Mr. Wood, making an enquiry about a pension on behalf of Miss. Hannah Smith (undated, although it is on reverse of a printed letter template dated July 1907); two Notices of the Decision of the Minister of Health regarding pension appeals, for Phoebe Houghton (rejected, May 1924) and Elizabeth Harker (accepted, June 1924); blank Application for Increase of Pension form under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1924; copy of Old Age Pensions Consolidated Regulations, 1922; Ministry of Health circulars relating to the Old Age Pensions Acts 1908-1919 and 1924, and the Blind Persons Act, 1920; typescript letter from G. Hammond Etherton, Clerk to the Local Pension Sub-Committee of the Lancashire County Council, regarding fees and expenses claims for meetings regarding the Old Age Pensions Acts (27 June 1924). |