OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
It, had been said tho Opposition would aboh.sh old-age pension?. There was not s=J man in the Opposition who was opposed tctho piinciplo of old-age pensions; but t'A pye-ent system was imperfect: it did !, discriminate between the deserving and tin
~ undeserving. He would be sorry to hurt the feelings of any pensioner, but he - thought the system inflicted the stigma of "" poverty upon pensioners, because if they had. a certain sum of money they could not receive a pension. Some day when statesmen took up the reiir? of government — statesmen rather than politicians — the pension scheme would be made a general one, and there would be no disgrace in applying - for such a pension. — ("' Hear, hear.") Either that would have to be done or the country would have to go in for a contributory system subsidised by the State. He believed that would hs a good scheme. A man setting aside 6d per week from the' age of 20 till he was 60 should be entitled at 60 to receive 10s ncr week, and that should be subsidised by " the State 50 per cent. — (Applause.)
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Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 17
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187OLD-AGE PENSIONS. Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 17
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