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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 June 1910, Page 4

Afraid to Loose Pension » WHY AN OLD MAN DTITNOT CALL A DOCTOR TO ATTEND HIS DYING U'liFE. Recently it fell to the Shoreditch coroner to correct the fallacy that an okkagto pensioner would lose his pension by calling in the parish doctor. He had to inquire into the death of an old-age pensioner of eighty, (Mrs Charlotte Thonvas, who had lived with her husband in a room iiv "Brunswick place, Hoxton. The husband, wflth mackintosh buttoned up to his chin, cllean-shaven and flowing, iron grey locks, made n striking'picture .as he had. to be assisted in'tV> the witness box. He said that since Christmas his wife had been "bad and better, better and had." He sat up with her throughout the night she died. The Coroner: Why did you not call in a doctor?— Because T could ndt pay for him. But you could have asked for the parish doctor?— Aye, aye; but if I had called him in they would have cond'oniiii'ed our penpfoins. Thiat is a mistake made by old>nge pensioners. You would 11'ot have lost your .pensions. What do you live 011?— Well, we had 5s a week apiece, and T sell a few things in the street. Tt was sta'ted that the woman, who died from heart 'failure, the result of old age and influenza, had been well looked after. She was wor nout, however, and had no appetite. ((tT 1 ' 6 .! y retl,ni(l(l a verdict of Death from natural causes."

HOROWHENTTA COUIS*fY COUNCIL. SPECIAL ORDER. PUBLTO NOTICE is hereby given that the Horowhenua County Council at a Special Meeting held on the 14th May. 1910, adopted" a Special Order making a Special Rate of 3-19ths of a penny in tihe £ on the rateable value of all rateable property in the Shannon Special Rating District to secure payment of th'o Interest and other charges on a Loan of £75, being 10 per cent on a Loan of £750 already raised for the purpose of constructing a drain, etc., in the said Special District. This Special Order, a copy of which may be inspected at the County Office, Levin, during office hours, will be confirmed at a meeting of the Council to be held on the 11th June, 1910. H E. LODGE, 592-4w County Clerk.