HUMANE LEGISLATION.
NOT A LIBERAL MONOPOLY,
WIDOWS' PENSIONS QUOTED.
Anent efforts that are being made by opponents of the Massey Government in the Tauranga electorate to discredit the liberal and humane nature of the social legislation enacted by that Government, a striking illustration comes from the Waikato, where the father of a family of six children was accidentally drowned in the river a few days ago and left his family in straitened circumstances (writes a Hamilton correspondent). Under the present legislation enacted during; Mr Massey's term as Prime Minister, the widow will be entitled to claim up to £136 10s per annum under the Widows' Pensions Act on behalf of the six children. Certainly credit is due to Sir Joseph Ward for bringing in the original Widows' Pensions Act, but if it had remained unaltered on the Statute Book during the Massey Government's regime all indigent widows would have been able to claiw would be up to £3O a year. This is one of the many instances which could be cited as illustrative of the truly liberal and humane ideas of the present Reform Party.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 664, 24 March 1923, Page 5
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185HUMANE LEGISLATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 664, 24 March 1923, Page 5
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