"GREATEST EVER."
PENSION LEGISLATION. GOVERNMENT DEFENDED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, this day. In a letter to the hon. secretary of the Waihi Miners' Pensioners' Association, Mr. H. P. Fagan, relative to pension' matters, Mr. J. Thorn, M.P., said: "With all its shortcomings, the Government's pension legislation is the greatest piece of social legislation ever enacted in the world, and the way to improve it is not to create diffi"u tics for the Government by unreasonable criticism, but to unite more firmly in the Government's support so that the difficulty it has to face may more easily be overcome." Mr. Thorn added that Mr. Parry, when introducing the Pensions Bill, had said that the legislation was inadequate, and that it was only a stop-gap to tide them over iintif they could legislate a great national superannuation scheme next year, which would better the position of all pensioners.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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