NO MEANS TEST CONTEMPLATED
Pension For War Amputees
(New Zealana Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 7.
The Minister in charge of war pensions, Mr Connolly, today denied that the Government intended making the servicemen’s basic disability pension subject to a means test.
He was replying to a statement by the president of the New Zealand War Amputees’ Association, Mr G. A. O’Leary, at the association’s conference in New Plymouth yesterday. “The Labour Government has not, even in inference, made any suggestion of intention to amend the present legislation in the district which has been indicated, nor to my knowledge has any other Government. The only circumstances which are taken into account in determining a basic war disablement pension are the nature and extent of disablement.”
Slow but noticeable success has attended the law passed in Persia in 1955 to prohibit the “cultivation of opium poppy and the use of opium by addicts.” One Teheran hospital has treated 5000 patients without a single death.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28890, 9 May 1959, Page 11
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