NOT A LIBERAL MONOPOLY.
HUMANE LEGISLATION.
WIDOWS' PENSIONS QUOTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Wednesday. 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 strildng 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. Under the present legislation enacted during Mr. Massey's term as Prime Minister, the widow will be entitled to claim up to £156 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 but if it had remained unaltered on the Statute Book during the Massey Government's regime, all indigent' widows would have been able to claim would be up to £30 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18355, 22 March 1923, Page 8
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185NOT A LIBERAL MONOPOLY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18355, 22 March 1923, Page 8
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