THE SUPERANNUATION SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1938, Page 8

THE SUPERANNUATION SCHEME.

Whatever the merits or demerits of the social securitj' scheme may be, they do not justify disgruntled persons calling any recipients of the pension loafers and wasters. What do they know of the circumstances of many of these more unfortunate people they are so ready to condemn? It is utterly impossible for a man working on wages to bring up a family, pay maternity fees, doctors' fees, hospital fees and a hundred and one other items (inchidintr ]>erio<Ls of unemployment) to save sufficient to keep himself and his wife in their old age. Many of these men who will benefit by the scheme gave up to four years of their lives to. save the Empire and to keep others in comfortable jobs. Many of these men lost their business or found their job« filled when they returned, and have be«n unable to get on tlieir feet again. Again, they lost another four years. 1931-35. Eight years' valuable time lost so far as they are concerned, and for what? To be called loafers and wasters. Their greatest sin appears to" me that they have not been shrewd enough to arrancre to have had their friends born before them. C. CHALLEXOK.