“NOT FORGOTTEN”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 72, 18 December 1935, Page 12

“NOT FORGOTTEN”

Old Age and Other Pensioners LEGAL BAR TO BONUS Minister’s Assurance Of Early Benefit If was announced last evening by the Minister of Pensions, Hon. AV. E. Parry, that he had made a careful examination of the proposal to pay a Christmas bonus, but tiie Treasury reported that legislation would be required to enable such a bonus to be paid. “Tliis means that no action can be taken until after the new Parliament lias met,” the Minister said. “I want, however, to give my assurance to blind persons, Op widows, to old-age pensioners and invalids, who are suffering as a. result of the anomalies in the present Pensions Act, that they will all benefit in the reconstruction of the law that the Labour Government proposes to bring down in the New Year. “I do not under-estimate the size of the job. It is a big one, and I am pleased to have the opportunity of assisting to mould iihe.se humanitarian measures which will create the foundation of our future national system of superannuation. This measure will have pride of place in my work in the New Year. I am sure, from the kindly messages of goodwill I have received from all parts of New Zealand, that rnur policy will have the support and co-operation of all those who earnestly desire to see the first step taken toward the abolition of poverty in New Zealand.”