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Grey River Argus, 13 August 1936, Page 4

Speaking in the debate on the Budget. Air. Thorn (Thames) and describing it as. humanitarian, said the pensions for invalids would cost more than one million a year, and would save New Zealand from the disgrace of leaving those people to private charity or to the limited- relief of hospital boards. He paid a tribute to Air. J. O’Briert, who had for some years introduced an Invalid Pension Bill, and said the present measure was due in a large measure to his persistency. The miners’ pension provision would relieve what was a deplorable position. Tho abolition of the miners’ widows’ pensions was one of the atrocities committed during the depression, and it was cruelly unjust. Now it. was to be restored, and the Labour Partv had to be thanked for its restoration.— Press Assn.