"STAND BY ITSELF"
NO NEED TO BOAST
Mr. A. C. A. Sexton (Independent, Franklin) criticised Government members for boasting about the Bill. The Bill, he said, would stand by itself, and there was no need to boast about it. In his opinion some of the Labour members had been rather foolish in what they had said about the Bill and about what past Governments had failed to do. The Bill was based on past enactments and was mainly an enlargement of previous pension provisions.
After discussing the benefits proposed, he said that the allowance for children should have been greater to encourage larger families and as some recognition to the mothers of the race.
He also discussed the position of soldier pensioners under the new proposals, and said that the soldiers were entitled to a fair share of the prosperity of the country. They were entitled to an increase in their allowances at least equal to the increase in the cost of living.
Discussing- the money that . would have to' be raised for the scheme, he said that it could not be got from the wealthy people. The greater part of it would have to come from the poorer people.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 6
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