PENSIONERS' CONDITIONS.
Mr. Coates, replying to criticisms about old age pensioners not getting the same treatment as civil servants and M.P.'s, pointed to the fall of the cost of living. The full amount of the old age pension was only £39 per year, and many pensioners were getting anything from 7/ per week on account of being tied up with some mortgaged property which was earning nothing. I will cite one case as a sample. A man 75 years old whoso wife had sold up the homo and left him applied for a pension. Because his wife had had some money his pension was reduced to £29, and then because ho was tied up with a mortgage on a house that had not earned its outgoings for. interest, rates and insurance for three years and was in the hands of the mortgagee's solicitors, they cut the pension down another £5. O.A.P.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 6
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