THE LYONS ANNUITIES
PROPOSALS IN BILL CONSIDERABLE CHANGES CANBERRA, May 10. The Federal Ministry’s Bill to provide annuities of £SOO a year for Dame Enid Lyons and her children is to be substantially amended. The Ministry made this decision after it encountered unexpected trouble in the House of Representatives when it introduced the Bill. When it became apparent that the Ministry would be defeated if it pressed the measure in its present form, at the suggestion of Mr R. G. Menzies a committee consisting of two members of each party reviewed the proposal. As a result of these deliberations new proposals were placed before members of the various parties, which will probably result in the following arrangements being accepted by the House: — The annuity to Dame ;Enid will remain at £SOO, provided she does not remarry, and an annuity on a sliding scale will be paid to the children until the youngest is 16 years, not 21 years, as proposed in the present Bill. The amount will fall by about £BS a year until, when the youngest child reaches 16, it will disappear altogether.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23806, 12 May 1939, Page 9
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