OLD AGE PENSIONS.
IMPORTANT TEST CASE
United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Feb. 15.
The King’s Bench, Dublin, heard a test case affecting old age pensions, totalling a quarter of a million .pounds. It upheld the discontinuance of a sion on the ground that a pensioner was under 70 years of age.
FRANCE ADOPTS SCHEME
PARIS, Feb. 1-3
The French Senate of Deputies' having twice rejected the Old Age Pensions Bill, because it was crude and ill-considered, the Goernment- prepai - cd a new measure, which was unanimously adopted. The Bill is moulded upon German lines, workmen and employers contributing equal portions to pensions, and the State adding further contributions. The age limit is Go. Men contribute nine francs per year, women six francs, and boys four and a half francs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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129OLD AGE PENSIONS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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