OLD AGE PENSIONS.
WKATqpNBTITni?EB OLD AGE? A Contemporary Review articli on the need for Old AgeTensiom at Home says. Men are countec old at fifty in many trades, and i white-haired shoemaker of sixtythree, whom I met in the North, ampton Workhouse the other day assured me that the pace was suet in the bootmttking trade, when the 'team' system is in force that young fellows at thirty-threi were fairly usad up. Ask Mi Whitelyor Mr John Barker th< average age of the ladies anc gentlemen who serve behind thi counter in their emporiums, anc they will probably tell you that it does not exceed twenty-five. It ii early-closing day for the shoj assistants with a vengeance. G( down to the docks and watch th< crowd of lads at work there anc count the grey-haired men. Yoi will not find many. Both fashioi and industry have turned againsi the old.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3913, 18 October 1899, Page 4
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