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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 460, 19 March 1909, Page 5

Tho Old Ago Pensions Act will not be perfect, according to Mr. T. E. "Taylor, M.P., until every man or woman who is between sixty and seventy-five years of ago can obtain tho benefit of it. It was nothing less than a scandal, declared Mr. Taylor at an Oddfellows' banquet in Christchurcli, that tho value of a man's or woman's home, which was not bringing in any income, should count against him or her. _ The system at prcsoiit in vogue led to deceit and misrepresentation. Ho would bo able to quote to the House of Parliament a number of instances where men and womou' who had been receiving the pension had their relief cut down becauso the Government valuation of their homes had been increased.

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By all means let us know tho full power of the spirit over the body. Only let us have facts that can be fairly and fully tested.—"British Medical Journal,"