PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS.
BRITISH PROPOSAL REJECTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright London, March 7. In the House of Commons Mr. Rhys Davies moved that mothers’ pensions, adequate for bringing up children, should be paid to all widows or mothers whose bread-winners were incapacitated, He said mothers’ pensions were paid in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Lady Astor urged that the motion WOIII4 result in economy. If the Government could not go the whole way it should adopt the Now Zealand p’an, which would only cost eight to ten millions. Mrs. Wintringham appealed to the House not to regard this as a party question. The need of pensions, apart from the poor law, was most urgent. 'Sir W Joynson-Hicks pointed out that the Government was bound to its pledges of economy and could not find money for such a scheme.
The motion was rejected by 248 votes to 184.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1923, Page 4
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