STATE PENSIONERS
PAYMENT A DAY EARLIER THIS AIONTH. MINISTER’S CONSIDERATION FOR AGED AND INFIRM. (.Press Association) • ' WELLINGTON, May 19. State pensioners will receive their pensions a, day earlier this month, on Friday, May 20. The. reason for the change in date of payment was explained by the Minister of Pensions,-the Hon. W. E. Parry, to be due to the regular day, the twenty-third of the month, for paying out- old age, widows’, , blind, miners, and war pensions, falling this month on a Saturday. “The alteration,” said the Minister, “carries benefits all .round. ; It prevents congestion at the paying offices of a large number of elderly people and probably some physically incapacitated men. all understandably desirous of receiving their amounts promptly, and helps the officers to pet their work with pensioners done without having to rush it, and may be unwittingly bustling/ pensioners.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12866, 21 May 1936, Page 2
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142STATE PENSIONERS Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12866, 21 May 1936, Page 2
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