OLD AGE PENSIONS.
The. advantage of encouraging the workers to provide themselves with homes for their old age must be obvious to anyone, and we cannot see that by paying the full pension to a man owning a home worth £4OO or £SOO the State would place itself under any obligation to treat the man of.independent means in the same way. At present universal pensions are out of the question. They would involve tlie State in an annual liability of considerably over a million a year, and would not improve the position of the people who really need assistance. However, Mr. Taylor is not asking for such a sweeping measure as this, and we believe that he will have the support of every substantial section of the House in the reform he is seeking.—“Lyttelton Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2474, 13 April 1909, Page 2
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135OLD AGE PENSIONS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2474, 13 April 1909, Page 2
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