LACKING PENSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 128, 1 June 1934, Page 6

LACKING PENSIONS.

RECIPROCITY WITH BRITAIN. (To the Editor.) I wonder if in these days of hunger marches it would bo advisable for us old people in Auckland, who are the only ones no provision is made for, and who are in the last stages of want through a neglectful Government, to take a quiet walk up Queen Street by way of protest againet the decree of 25 years' residence in the Dominion before we are eligible for pens-ions. It might open the eyes of the public to this most crying of all needs in their midst. Wβ would, I've no doubt, be a pitiful spectacle of ago and want. After seventy years and over, after long years of hard work, we are crowned now with want in a country of plenty. If the plain truth had been told and these things explained there would have been fewer emigrants here to-day, and lees unemployed who have never got a start, except on relief work, since they came to the country. We were not emigrants on any scheme and paid our full fare out, but even then were not told we were too old. We just took it for granted, like thousands more that being British born and coming to one of her colonies, the pension would naturally follow, and be fixed between the two Governments. It is for the Government to force part payment from Britain without any further delay. AULD WIFE.