THREEPENCE A WEEK.
WORLD'S SMALLEST PENSION. What is believed to be the world's smallest pension is collected at Guildford weekly by Charles Pearce (72), retired railway employee. A veteran of 40 years' service, he draws threepence a week. He explains that the company originally paid him 10/ a,week.. Later he qualified for a Government old-age pension of 9/10, whereupon his railroad peneion was reduced by that amount. It is not the amount that leads him to collect his due, but the fact that 60 long as he collects it he remains on the company's books. And while on the books he ie entitled to one free pass a year, with the privilege of quarter-fare tickets for his family.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 10 (Supplement)
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118THREEPENCE A WEEK. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 10 (Supplement)
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