THE COMMONWEALTH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 5

THE COMMONWEALTH.

'••'.' ,'.''..'. OLE AGE PENSIONS. ~'- ",• i- (I)y Telcgi-apli.—l'reaa Aasoclntion.-Oopyrltrljt.), ■<.',*'■■:■< :'-,■'Melbourne,'; August." .6.'/.. . The Federal-Senate amended the. Old' Ago Pensions Bill to extend invalid pensions/to naturalised Asiatics, Maoris,' and African blacks:. :, / .-.'■ ■ • •.•;-■•-,. '-/■■'• '•':.. ■".,- •'■'.''' • '•. '-" ''" ' "'",.'''.'■"'' • '. * '/ /.. ■:■■;; 'silver coinage. . ;;' ,;•■/'•■■. August7;.■o.2o a.m'O'' _•/:./- .■'■'■■ ■. Melbourne) August' 6. ,'. The Senate carried an amendment.to tho Old Age Pensions Bill, excluding naturalised Chinese, Pacific Islanders, Maoris,,or. other coloured races fron'i. receipt of-, tho-pension. '.The Federal Silver. Coinage. Bill, was taken in Committee of the House- of Representatives. The -Treasurer, Sir. John Forrest, oxplained that: the "proportion /of, silver would' bo the, same ..as in.the United Kingdom'and Canada.. The coins wouid .'not: /bo |.interchangeable with those of, the; United Kingdom'j but probably would be accepted in New Zealand and.the Pacific Islands. Mr. Fishpr, Labour Leader,"objected to the words "King and Emperor 1 ■' being put on tho coins". / ■" ;..'/ .■'.-' ■,' ', 'Sir John Forrest stated that he would endeavour to alter them to "King of all the ■Britains." •' The House adjourned jtill Tuesday. ;