OLD AGE PENSIONS
INiCJREASB SOUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
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MELBOURNE, This; .Day. Replying to a deputa.tdori). asking, -for 1 inoreased old age pensions Mr JHiggs, Fedei-al 'Treasurer,-•■stated that the Commonwealth; wasi paying 2,800,000 annaially in pensioiis'. Probably next'year would be added'.trwo-million- for war pensions. They had, to pay at least five •millions, annually. interest on war loans.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 1 August 1916, Page 5
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