Old Age Pensions

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12580, 29 September 1908, Page 5

Old Age Pensions

Speech by Mr. Haldane,

Press Association . — Telegraph.— Copyright

Received September 29, 8.42 a.m. LONDON, September 28^ Mr Haldane, speaking at Ladybarik, said that the old age pensions were only part of much larger problems of the poor law reform confronting the Government. Different authorities, he said, ought to deal with children, with preventible disease among the poor, and with the criminal element, which required to be segregated because they dragged down others. Those who sought the poor-house through no. fault of their own ought to v be dealt with tenderly and kindly. There was great room for economy and improved efficiency. Ail this machinery needed overhauling. Education, land and licensing, besides a- multitude of problems clustering round those subjects, requires attention before the community could bj in a healthy condition.