PENSIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 4

PENSIONS

May I thank Dorothv Derig for her comments, and in reply say that the very last thing the writer wishes to do is to mislead anyone. True. I did say that pensioners had to appear for examination before a stipendiary magistrate; this was true in so far as the present writer was concerned. Now. of course, our benevolent and beneficont Labour 'Government reserve to themselves and their faithful yes-men the sole right of granting or taking away of pensions, and the benericiaries have no right in laV to contest any unjust and harmful arbitrary treatment. Since opening this publicity controversy. every mail brings the writer numerous letters of complaints of unjust treatment and of sympathetic treatment, even from as far south as Dunedin. The A.P A. and W. Association is completely operated by age pensioners in an honorary capacity, and we intend to keep it so. In one case an aped widow is compelled to accept hard day work that brings her 2<i per week to augment her widow's li.n.- cn > i 2 ) . Out of this £2 she has to pa\ ov>..2a./ per week remal for iu-r State nouse. leaving a balance o; less than L?/. l'cr week to cover evervihing. This will be reported to the Cabinet Minister, and we hope that something will he done. There art- many anomalies that need the light of day. CHARLES LA WHIN", A.P.A. Official Correspondent.