OLD AGE PENSIONS.
In your article oil pensions in your Fridays issue it is stated that the full pension is £45 10/ per annum. I was always under t! ie impression that 15/ weekly was the full pension and that during the Great War and f° r some time after it was raised to 17/(1. Has the 2/0 been made permanent? taxpayer. [With the restoration of the cut, as from October 1, the full pension is £45 10/ per year. Under the Finance Act. 1917, pensioners were paid an additional 5/ a week by wav of war bonus, as their pension at that time was only £20 per year. Later the bonus was incorporated in the statutory pension, and in 1925 the rate was fixed by statute at £45 10/. —Ed.]
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 8
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