OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 8

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Tla\o the old ape pensioner* goi a square deal? 1 <ontp)id they liuve not. There, is 1.0 doubt, with the pi.>speri(y of th* country, all cut* wiuld liavo boon restored if Beform had IK-en returned to oflice and gi'cn the old ape pensioner £1 per nock. The Labour Government give* £1 2/<>, but with the. co*t of living thp old age pensioner is wiirw off. In the wordfr of Mr. Nash, let u* look ba<-k a little. Mr. Savage at hi* meeting in the In«.titute mi dip rvo of the last election tini<l word* to this effrot,: '"If wo got into office .ill von old people and t ho*e <>n sustenance I will M>e will haie .i ha|>,t\- ("lirietnini>." N'ow then, what ha- iii'tiiullv happened ? Single men <'n stiffpiiiiinx got an im*r**i«*»«» of H/ per week and « week's e\tra payment a*. Christ disk bonu*. Ciood luck to them. The poor d<l ag«> pensioners pot notliinpr for oome months, and then only a restoration of the cut. aud after some months another belated 2 '(> per week. Why. a deserting wbo pop*, on MistPnani'P. is iin poixl a <iti/.pn :ii. tln> <il«l apr ponsinner. In Australia thp now liealth fihcniP will romp into operation <>n •Tumiarr 1. l«>t liprp the pcti.-jonpr has to p\i<-t tiil April. lf>.W, Siilniost four years t>in<\< the Labour tio\*rnnient. <ii me into office. I \ontiirp to say if tbpi-p old lvMlioi had a militant union or Mr. Semple or Mr. I.op a- their Mini*tcr the rfltc of ppn:-i"M «Miild lia\<-' lippn :JO/ a w ppk fi'ini* months apn. 1 wonder how many old pensioner* ran buy a of <'oal thin winter. DELUDED.