RECIPROCAL PENSIONS.
Tho Primo Minister was urged by Mr. W. Nash (Labour, Hutfc) in the House <>£ Representatives yesterday to raise the question with the Home authorities when- ho goes t- the Imperial Conference of effecting a reciprocal old age- pension arrangement, and also to see if Australia will ratify it r ■-. ■
Mr. Nash mentioned two instances in Ms own electorate of aged men who are unable to qualify at present for pension assistance from either the Imperial Government or under the New Zealand law. Ono of them, ho said, was 72 years of age, enlisted in a British regiment at the age of 18, served in India, participated in the Afghan War in 1879, was besieged at Khandahar, was mentioned in special orders, went through the Egyptian campaign in 1882 and 1883, and lost his eldest son in the Great War. He could not get a pension in New Zealand because there was no reciprocal arrangement with tho Old Country.
The other case was that of a man born in the West Indies, his father being a soldier. Ho went to live in London at the age of 17 years, and was now 67, having resided in New Zealand for six years. Mr. Nash said he had communicated with the authorities at Home in regard to his case, and had learned that ho would have been entitled to a pension under the English Act had ho been a contributor to tho national insurance scheme. He was well over the pension age, and was living on charity, and to some extent dependent on his sou,,who was also in indigent circumstances. Mr Nash said ho could mention about one Imndred similvT cases.
RECIPROCAL PENSIONS.
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 38, 13 August 1930, Page 10
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