POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 49, 12 October 1911, Page 6

POLITICAL.

NOTES BY THE WAY

In explaining the Olcl-ago Pensions Bill the Prime Minister said that it would enable a larger pension to be paid in certain cases where deductions were made in connection with real or personal property.- The Bill also provided that a man of sixty years of ago or a woman of fifty-five wi fch two or more children the ago of fourteen years dependent on them should he entitled to a pension in accordance with the Act, and a further'sum up to £l3 per annum as the Magistrate should determine. The State Guaranteed Advances Amendment Bill, said the Prime Minister, proposed among other things to extend the amount that could he paid under the Act by £250,000 per annum. This makes the annual limit £750.000. This was for the purposes of the Advances to Workers’ Department in accordance with the Budget Statement. The following was also added: “That whenever the total amount authorised to be raised in any one financial year is not raised within that year the balance imvaiscd may ho raised during 1 the subsequent period in addition to cite amount authorised to bo raised during that subsequent period.”