WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 655, 4 November 1909, Page 5

WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION.

-The monthly ■meeting,, of 'the Women's Social, and.'Political' League was hold yesterday afternoon at'.: the : residence of. the , secretary,: Mrs. \V:B. Mpbre, Bidwill. Street. .Mrs. lioy Drown presided.-': A-. special 'vote; of- thanks was; passed, to , Mrs;,'. Moor e, for;-her. work; as secretary in .organising',and;carrying to. a;successful finaucial.'issue .the recent Welcome social tendered to-Sir.Josep'h ; -w arc i. . .; , ■ t^ , ~'.';..;'.! I A discussion took place ■on old age pensions, ■ and attention: was drawn to. the power' which the> law .gives—but .which , is rit'a's often availed.; 6t; as might : be^-for.. an -old person to transfer.ihU-'property—if it does riot exceed i£6so in.value—to , the Public Trustee; on doing which'the: old person .■■'is , entitled • to" receive from, the- Old Age- Pensions Department' the full - amount' of 'pension, > instead of a reduced pension due .to the,ownership of the property/.In'the case of ■ an old couple owning: a: nouse and. land ; woifh .£SOO, they would'be ehtitlea, if'they did, not transfer 'it to .the Public 'lVustee, to'.a pensibnof 'iE9 a'year , each'jif. they'.did. they, would ■ receive .£26 )a. year each. Afteiv'tlieir ; death, the amount of pension-paid them in excess of what they, wquld; ihave . bpen ;.entitled to'-had they not transfprrje'd their property—that.is, £3i a year,' ,'beuig. tho between' JCS2 and ayear—is met by the Public.Trustee selling the prop.erty.: Thus, in. the ,case of anold couple bwnin'g.a i house and' land ; worth if they both' died at :tho end of, one' ; year -there would be; i£34., to 'bo imets- if .'they. died at' the ■■end: of ton years,': the .amount would be J340.- .If the next ;.of kin • elect .to'.pay . this charge, the Public Trustee will accept their money, and wilL';deliver'to-fhem thojorpperty, without any submission to auction. The Public Trustee all through, simply.: holds the deeds as. security and the , pensioner or; pensioners retain full control of. the home, without having tho worry of financing.v The general'opinion of the meeting was that this is , a-valuable -provision of the law, and .should .-be more widely known. • •■■ ; A Jady ■ from Home' has .oromised to ; deliver an; address at,next meeting of the league, on the subject of "Emigration.*'. ■ : . . ■ - •/