IMMIGRATION
Sir.—ln your issue of November 19 Mr E. T. Beaven is reported to have said that New Zealand must be prepared to take not only the young people from Britain, but also grandma and granddad, mother and father. I am m full accord with this sentiment. but there is one factor that might deter old people coming to settle here, viz., the provision in our Pensions Act, whereby a person must have resided in New Zealand for 20 years before being eligible for a pension. It follows that many parents, and most of the grandparents, would never become entitled to a pension. Is it not time that the New Zealand act was liberalised and the term of residence reduced to five or 10" years? The English Pensions Act requires residence of 12 years affer age 50 for persons of British birth.—Yours, etc.. ENGLISHMAN. November 23, 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25660, 24 November 1948, Page 2
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