OLD AGE PENSIONS.
RELUCTANCE TO APPLY VANISHING. By Telejraph—Pre6a Association—Copyright Melbourne, Octobcr 28. The Prime Minister (Mr. Andrew Fisher), in his Budget Speech, said that the large increase of old age pensions was due to the disappearance of the feeling that t'he pensions were paid as a matter of charity. Now that tho principle underlying tho payment was better understood, the reluctance to apply for the pension was vanishing. It is expected that tho payments for the current year will total ,£2,199,000. Special allowances will bo mado to the blind.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 5
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90OLD AGE PENSIONS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 5
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