OLD AGE PENSIONS.
CHAMBERLAIN'S VIEWS.
(Received 9.39 a.m.)
LONDON, May 30
Mr Chamberlain, in a speech at a gathering of Independent Oddfellows at Birmingham, invited the Friendly Societies to present to Parliament a scheme based on State aid only to the poor and aged who had made provision for themselves through such societies. He said the universal opinion was that old age pensions were absolutely impracticable, as they would entail-a"State expenditure of £35.000,000 yearly and would discourage thrift.
Mr Chamberlain in his Birmingham speech reminded the Oddfellows that one-half of their London societies show au actual deficit of five shillings in the pound owingl to the amount.of sick allowances paid to aged members.
The International Miners' Congress unanimously approved of State pensions for the aged poor and others unable to work at the specified a»e to be comparative.
The Oddfellows' Congress approved of the principle of old age State pensions to every citizen, both mcle and female.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 128, 31 May 1901, Page 4
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