QUEEN SEES PROTEST
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 12. Angry old people protesting for bigger pensions had a Royal audience. The Queen passed the 15 placard-carrying campaigners in her car as they marched to Buckingham Palace to hand in a protest petition addressed to her. One of the pensioners said: “She seemed quite surprised when she saw us.” Mrs Doris Allison, aged .71, said: “We have been refused our small rise, although prices keep going up, but the Queen has this tremendous pay increase and so do others in the Royal Family, toe Prime Minister. Leader of toe Opposition, and M.P.s.” The petition asked the Queen to compare the "generosity and speed of payment” of the recent Ministerial increases to "the meagre subsistence payments for retirement pensioners, who have recently been refused a Christmas bonus, or an extra week’s pension."
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 17
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140QUEEN SEES PROTEST Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 17
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