A PERPETUAL PENSION.
RODNEY GRANT TO BE COMMUTED. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. London, March 11The Treasury proposes to commute for £42,000 the perpetual pension of £2,000 awarded Admiral Rodney in 1782- The present recipient is a farmer in Canada, aged 33, a grandson of a nephew of Rodney’s great grandson. Altogether the pension has cost the country £324,000The “Daily Express” says a general who wins battles performs services for which through long years of peace he has been trained and paid- If tne right of the state in peril to enlist every man be conceded, the selection of particular men for large grants‘becomes inconsistent. Victors in future wars are unlikely to make a fortune out of victory. The “Daily Herald” says ; “Lord Haig and Lord Beatty are both rich and others were granted large sums after the war because we follow tradition. We filled pockets fuller because this had been tne practice of kings. We must get rid of the incubus of tradition.”—(A. and N.Z-)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 80, 12 March 1924, Page 5
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163A PERPETUAL PENSION. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 80, 12 March 1924, Page 5
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