OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.
(Received June 2-3i:.h. 12.28 a.m.) The McMuso of Commions considered the Okl Ago Pensions Bill in Committee. .Mr Bowles moved mn arnfnd'meOTt, that pensions ba only paid whilo the pensioners remained in the United Kingdom. Mr Balfmir and Mr Ausben Chamberlain mainteined thait pensioners oiiißlit to Im> a Mowed to go to places over-eea where thoir friends lived. Mr Lloyd-Georgo explained tiliat the Government desired punsioiiis t'a be payable 01* tlio sumo conditions as prevailed in lilio colonies, namely, whilo tho cJaimants resided in the colonies, but absonco for a biioi peirdod woukl not. l>o a cause of forfeiture. Tho ibiacmdaneiiit was rejected by a majority of 275.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13151, 25 June 1908, Page 7
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