OLD-AGE PENSIONERS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 13

OLD-AGE PENSIONERS.

; *o m tMT«i of m rim j ■ S;r - —Th« plaint tr.adt by **Oa« c>£ j \t'z* Meek And Lowly" in Friday f « ) | Pre** d«v nei th#> h*artf ri(>jx»rt of 1 ;a:r m<i"l mer» a.nd women. No Gov- j * ' should J** >!.''■•'ar to inform the ■ '• !••• tha' certain pernonn re.^i■• e. or j r the oj.j ag» p«»u»ioc. Voar j •' rr»twn-t»r r r<•:'••-» *o the practice oi 1 ♦' raf - ! "' T ru«f «•>-; t w..cM :tA* ?o brii.ff ' " t "*' !,,r '" y o-jr f i'l'm :;i - T-i-f, fh.'Li trio •jifif *2 :: £ : « d*-ne in ■•*•: f ; •; •'!■- ' • ' • • ' *d. » ' •i i* a" •• •- lurid ■ ' -».-h hr.i f„r th- vi.ittng puM; • to i !\>il «»m< < ' i >n»« <<?«•. • M >•• .• c r*« i ' "!.» .1 gr r ' ' Silf-iv ?hn t r « .11 ur » s -ry as it i« rrii«»!. j r l.ort* ma;.V rrot'O'-taM* It i • «•»•«! i'»- ;r.n ediat'ly stopped. W» ; : t» >. ■ r *>«>-■ rnep an<f women ! ■ •■■■ Ki>ar«i; xnav w« lock M I • r.\ In r •?»•<-.j \ t T r s■* f f m »>jre wo j \ ronfi'«jr ( ,rjr d« »<?.—Yoar*. etc., I , a visitor or thf: m« k. I I Xov»mr«r C*ffc j •*--> '■ ! l_l" I s i to Til MX>TTim n* m ;iim J ( >. ' \our correspondent "Meek j I ••>n4 Lowlv" »tandj» to Kulard .loton .in 1 deplore*, sis h«>ii€"H 1 1 b>lk did nhi-n he wat altv.-. the ir.iv r- , ii-' 1 .- (fits.tuix tli«- l,ih.Tai l*urt> <i ; 1 i-L -Tiitncr to Kiff-iird J>.hn ,>*>cJ«loh'k 1 .ipp>-»l on b'htlt <«t the «6ft lid ; i"' r '• Tit*; «•«;. applies to day ; t I th» I.« '») r*-r «»-«>k they now [ >4 anvtSimc but a true <»*prr*fn>n of ! th»* i'>st f>( N«-w 7.i j "M.A.W. ' .lohn Hallan'-r tli" > ■ f>>r it all. whi'-li m jn>t t»irre<t. i i Mniv y»>ar-i Ni>» Z«'al:tn«i f »t. r thought r>{. m»*it ui Kntcland had : i h«M r lues tor jtj s— j t •.»' for th»' Hn romarki ui>on j ' sb.- difffr'-n'-f betwp<»n age pension ' I sod »ap«rannu.TiAfi ar»> also wrong. No I | p. in \nv Zealand to-day, if j I -r -i tin: sat.ie. ran «par« any ironcT for -• iiip<?r.->!im:atkm fund, or ■ -'ti* - ot !i«rr fund. Yr-nr*. etr.. J.F H. N».t"!i,vr J.v'i TO ?M SDtTOB CT TKS r*«M. Sir, —With r*tWf»nr« to letters r*v j yarding old ac«> p»n<nowrj, it is a mctb that kindly fr^ltnj;— «as€nce of 1 hrrrduiy—».« not on the incroas® j or ««ch letters would not need to !•« j wrttfen. j B*jt the r»'liri'"d, |^*t-, ar«; j ! «rn and not made. There in la-t j appeari:ir in New Zealand a phito- ! rracjr of ictiorano- that it riot pleasant Ito lire with. Ami there ar« many who j chroneh unearnetl inTcment and [ hure to position and 1 power, who «'r>nld not h.ire donp the ' work of a .jublie servant, niurh le-s Ithe work ■;( a tearher. Very little more than the canning of animals ran make a fortune, j I urn a woman drawing » retiring i allowance. I many of m.v very ' .. \ »ragr pupils dfi v i |l K automobile#. T I walk. i know siieee?s»fiil teachers of • tlte higher l">>rnw who would have been i much hotter off an'l worn out liafi ; thev kept laundries. Tlie money they t in to procure Mitxrannuation i wotiM hare been as well placed in i insnranre. ' Tlie old at;e pensioner has no money i:md did not pay for his pension, but I know a few «urb that are kings in f rornparison with sonic of the rulgar i wealthr.—Yours, etc., j MARY. I XoTember 25th, 1929.