CORRESPONDENCE.
POVERTY AND PENSIONS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —T was pleased to read in jour columns a few (lavs ago an appeal from ''Live and L-et' Live," also your editorial the following day for increased pensions to our aged poor. T noticed by the cablegrams that Mr Bonnr Law had announced that the British Government is allowing old acre pensioners an additional 2s Gd per vcck. Surely ,thc time has arrived for our representatives in the House to take up this question and do something to alleviate the position of those who have given the hesr- of their lives to help to make this Dominion what it now is.
I think it a positive disgrace in a country such as this, with all its boasted prosperity and everything at famine prices, to expect these old pensioners to exist on such a small allowance. Trusting the Government will &oon relinquish the go-slew policy, talk less and do more.—l am, etc., HUMANITY TO MAN.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12065, 21 July 1917, Page 10
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