LATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 15

LATE CORRESPONDENCE.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. M.Q. —While hote.ls are closed, liquor cannot legally be served in any restaurant. —Ed. “ Star.” GLD AGE PENSIONS. Dear Sir, May I beg you to answer the following questions: naturalisation entitle a man to the old age pension at the age of sixty-five if he has been in New Zealand over twenty-five years? (2) Is there a declaration form to sign enabling a woman to retain her British nationality, as passed by recent Act of Parliament, and where can such form be obtained, and in signing is she entitled to old age pension? (3) Is it compulsor}' to produce a birth certificate when applying for the old age pension?—l am, etc., C. S. J. If a man has been naturalised for twelve months and has reached the age of sixty-five years and has been continuously in New Zealand for twenty-five }*ears, he is entitled to the old age pension. No information has been received by the Pensions Department concerning the recent Act of Parliament, but a woman married to a foreigner takes her husband’s nationality for pension purposes at present, and if he is naturalised she is also regarded as naturalised for pension purposes. A birth certificate is not essential, but it often facilitates matters. — Ed. *' Star.”