PENSION BILL
Ready for This Session By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, April 23. “I can definitely say that there will be a pension Bill this session, but it cannot come before the House until the financial position of the country is ascertained in the ordinary way,” said the Minister of Pensions, the Hon. W. Parry, in an interview to-day. “A Bill is in process of completion. The Government aims to make our pensions system as nearly uniform ns possible, and planned to cover in their operation a period of three years, but until such time as the financial pos: tion is really ascertained, and other important questions affecting the people of the Dominion that aro crying aloud for adjustment are considered, it is just impossible to say at the moment how much a bite from the Exchequer we can take for the first instalment of the Government's pension policy to be embodied in the Bill now under way.” The Minister said that there were many people whoso circumstances made them in great need of pensions, and it was only right to deal with these cases receiving no State help at all before dealing with cases of people already receiving pensions. The Government would decide what instalments of its pensions legislation could bo made during the first session.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 7
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