OLD AGE PENSIONS.
BRITAIN’S NEW GRANT. By Telsgraph—Press Association—Copyrigfts VustraJian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDON, December 19. Despite some protests against the dangerous precedent, tho House of Commons, without division, acoepted Mr Bon ax Law’s resolution enabling the Pensions Bill to bo rushed through tho House, which subsequently passed tho Bill through all stages without a singlo amendment.' Sir L. Worthington Evans, Pensions Minister, explained that there were 220,000 now pensioners, owing to tho Bill's generous terms in increasing tho amount of private means which pensioner's were entitled to possess. (A message received on Sunday stated:—ln tho House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law stated that tho Government wa3 prepared to pass before Christmas a grant of £10,000,000 to increase old ago pensions from 7 » 6d to 10s per areeiQ
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18286, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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129OLD AGE PENSIONS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18286, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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