OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.
0- — , IN COMMITTEE. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—OOPYBIOHI (Rec. Juno 25, 0.28 p.m.) London, June 24. In the House of Commons the Old Age Pensions Bill was considered in Committee. Mr. 6. •S; Bowles .(Conservative member for Norwood division of Lamboth) moved an amendment to the effect that pensions only bo paid while the'pensioner remains in ; tho United Kingdom. Messrs. Balfour and-A. Chamberlain maintainor! ' that pensioners'ought to bo allowed to go. to places oversea, where their friends livo. ■ •. .'' Mr. Lloyd-Goorgo, Chancellor of the Exchequer,' explained that th'e Government desired that pensions should bo payable on tlio same'conditions as prevailed 'in tho. colonies,: namely, whilo tho claimant, resided in the colonies. Absonco'for'a brief'period would not cause'forfeiture of pension. : The amendment was rojected by a majority of 275.- '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 7
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129OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 7
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