PARLIAMENTARY PENSIONS
Sir, —I quite agree with ‘‘Another Pensioner's " letter. I. think all - pensions could do with an overhaul, for instance the aged Tb pensioners. - They were granted 15s a week in 1938 —it is the saihe to-day. What do members of Parliament think when they compare their increase in salary and their superannuation with those old people’s income? Some of those old pensioners did more, for their country than some of the members of Parliament ever did. —I am, etc., Please Explain.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26822, 13 July 1948, Page 6
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