OLD-AGE PENSIONS: THEIR ABUSE.
Sin,—An ol(k?G pensioner died recently, and now Ins wifo has just sold a firm and two houses tor tile sum of £950. I also know an old couplo living not- far awav who, although they own a small farm, havo Any amount of poultry, several cows, and fiomo pigs, and drive into tenvn in their own trap on pension day to collect .their pensums. Ono moro instance: An old man recently deceased, spent 15s per week on drink, and. vet was allowed tho jionsion. ~ 0 ai '° a " (lots. It is about time that tiio present slipshod method of irrnntinfr these pensions was stopped.-! am. etc., _ l'fio Eoxo Publico. Dunedm, August 29,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13997, 2 September 1907, Page 7
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