The suggestion that the value of oldage pensioners' homes should not affect old-age pensions, with which Sir Joseph Ward is naturally in sympathy as the father of the old-age pensions system of this country, is receiving support from all sorts of unexpected quarters— even from those who qpposed the B,ill and voted against it on the ground that the system, would destroy self-reliance and thrift, Tliis i> aqother proof that " man was made holler his p'riucorptils to swallcr. *'
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 699, 27 October 1909, Page 5
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78Untitled Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 699, 27 October 1909, Page 5
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