BRITISH POLITICS.
OLD AGE PENSION SCHEME. APPROVED BY HOUSE OF COMMONS. Received March 16, 8.12 a.m. LONDON, Maroh 15. In the House of Commons, Mr O'Grady, brought forward a motion that a measure is urgently needed to provide old-age pensions out of funds from taxation. The motion was sympathetically received, and oarried without division. Mr Asquitb, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in accepting the principle embodied in the motion, pleaded for patience and prudence. The Government was pledged to a paoiflo policy abroad, and to take substantial steps to reduce the army and also the shipbuilding programme. He hinted at possible reductions in other departments and a widened basis of taxation for revenue purposes, thus making the burden fall witb greater ju&tioe and equality on all sec?ions of the community. Mr Burns considers the best, simplest, and fairest plan would be to give everyone a pension of five shillings a week at the age of 65 years, perhaps including the military, naval, oivil, and munioipal pensioners. The Government, he added, would take tbe matter up wben the Poor Law Commission's report was reoeived.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7988, 17 March 1906, Page 5
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