THE BILL IN COMMITTEE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 149, 25 June 1908, Page 5

THE BILL IN COMMITTEE.

RESTRICTIVE AMENDMENT

L©ST.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June ~2s, 0:28 .a.m.)

LONDON, June 24,

The House of Commons considered the Old Age Pensions Bill in .'Committee.

Mr G. S- Bowles, Conservative Member > for Norwood, moved an amendment that pensions Should be paid only.while the pensioner scemain■ed in the United Kingdom.

Messrs Balfour^and Austen -Ghamherlain Maintained that. pensioners ought to be allowed to go to places oversea where their friends lived.

Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor .of the Exchequer, explained that the Government desired that the pensions should be payable on the same conditions as those which prevailed in the Colonies—namely, that awhile the claimant resided In the Cblenies 'his absence for" a brief period would mot cause forfeiture.

The amendment was rejected i»y ;a majority of 275. -\