PENSIONS FOR THE BLIND.
ESTIMATED TO COST £3O <KXb [From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, September 28. It is not proposed to provide pensions for deserted wives and children or to vary the Widows Pensions Act this session. stated the Hon G. J. Anderson, Minister of Pensions, in reply to several questions from Labour member©; but, he added, tho question of providing pensions for the blind is under very serious consideration. I have always been in favour of pensions for the blind,” declared Mr Anderson, Minister in Charge of Pensions, during a general discussion on Ministerial replies. He went on to say that Cabinet agreed with this opinion, but on the lowest scale the cost would be £30,C00 to commence, and it was difficult to find this sum- The Government was quite as sympathetic as any member, and if the matter was practicable it would be done*. As for raising widows’ and orphans’ pensions to the same scale ae epidemic pensions, this was under consideration. A Labour Member: And what about old age pensions P The Minister: You cannot do it. The Government cannot wave a wand and find gold in every crevice. You cannot increase pensions when people are not fully employed, and when business moil are carrying on at a loss.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16543, 29 September 1921, Page 2
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