ABOUT A PENSION CERTIFICATE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 7

ABOUT A PENSION CERTIFICATE.

/;■■■■■' :, .''■'■■' '&■ ''.. : nntfMH&:\ &■ , ACTION BY "V! , The- case of the ; old y _age penpjoner.iwljflpgsve, his- pension certificate 1 advflnoed was again before'the Beney.oleiit Trus.tees yesterday, when .the' follo\yjng lettef. was received from Mr. J. iEwan ; Cqinnjis-' Bipper'of■-.the Old Age^PcneioA^Delpdrtiiielit \~ . Early in December >yoV ! ■ •there wrs 'consideraJ)lfl_press_Lcouimettt_au— - ' '■ reference to the impounding ,of ■■• the certifi-..-. cate issued' to the abqy£rnainfe"d! I |iensioncr.- :i--(Pension .No. 1623-Wellingtpn—JphwDoylsj' ■•:; ..- At -the request i> ' • trustees, who had beeji- unabl& •tof.'se'cure'itUeV!'' . 'pension certificate, paymp.nl; 'pfsto'ei jeiisipit-'j! : was stopped, and'now.itha.t'tbtfipensionjfier,«.i.-tifioate-fias been ■-,• . tees, I desire.ito know; , fpiitheiinformation h \ of-the Minister for held the certificate-asi'seourity fpr.'ni'bney--'. l advanced to the pensioner, ..i >i;'i:i ' I may say, for your information, that the • system of payment'of pennons "ft enoiThStM' no instalmint can be., :paid to-ony person . other than the pensioner without-niy,. authority, and the r?c.eipts..for-:-the-variou3- : -' payments in this case held- by me, show tjbat' ■. the pensioner drew ' • This .Department has-inot,'■and ! ."-(iam'':'nev«r { . have, any control over any, person"-waiting' , ajttUe door,of a post v bffic6,' : anfl se'during/any ;■. ■portion of a pension first, dra'^ii^by^peh-: i pioner. ' .'■' '"■•' ': :■■.•-- ■ ■;-. When the'inforroation, ask-ed for is ■ . to hand, it willbe fo'r"-th'e ■Miiiister-to say ~ when,payment will" be y . The letter was discusseS" 'by' ifie'-'board in committee,,and it be, sent refemug the Commissioner to Doyjo himself, .since the matter !Vvds"Mft,.purelyi,'one-.be.' tween the pensioner andt^'DfipaTtrdetft,;;.'■'■