RESTRICTIONS ON PENSIONERS
CONCERN EXPRESSED BY WAR FUNDS ASSOCIATION
The fact that his company had offered a returned soldier, who was in receipt of an economic pension, work at £1 a day and that the man had refused on the grounds that the receipt of that wage would jeopardize his pension was mentioned by a member at a meeting of the Southland War Funds Association last week. Other cases were mentioned at the meeting of men who by reason of their disability could not earn anything approaching the basic wage, but who were quite willing to work for a wage commensurate with their earning power, but were debarred from so doing under the present labour laws. No action was taken at the meeting other than to note that it was the opinion of those present that, under existing conditions all restrictive measures should be relaxed in the forfeiture of economic allowance, family allowance, and regulations governing the basic wage.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19420128.2.64
Bibliographic details
Southland Times, Issue 24654, 28 January 1942, Page 6
Word Count
159RESTRICTIONS ON PENSIONERS Southland Times, Issue 24654, 28 January 1942, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in