OLD-AGE PENSIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, November 22.

Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 31

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, November 22.

The committee of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board went out to the Costley Home to-day. The members present were Messrs Bruce and A. P. Friend, their mission being to have brought before them about a dozen of the old-age pensioners, men and women, who receive a shilling a week of their pensions for pocket money, and who were charged with going out of the home and getting drunk. Some of the parties were very abusive to the members of the committee, and said that they would not submit to have -their liberty curtailed, that the ' statements were untrue, and that the manager (Mr Moss) had a "down on them." The report book was examined, and it was found that in some cases the police had brought the parties back to the institution under the' influence of liquor, and that the manager had " stuck up " others who had come back in a similar condition. The committee stated that they would not have such a scandal at the home, and that any future offence of the kind would be visited with punishment iby having leave stopped for six months, the shilling a week pocket money forfeited, or the offenders would leave the home altogether. It was never intended in the first instance that such a class of persons should receive old-age pensions, or the sober, industrious section of the community be burdened in such a manner, and this will account for the cost of old-age pensions going up by " leaps and boimds."

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