Old Age Pension Bill.
o A very interesting measure is the Old Age Pension Bill, which proposes to enact that every person who attains the age of 65 years or upwards shall be entitled to a pension of not less than 5b or more than 10s per week for the remainder of life, provided he bas lived in the colony not less than twenty years. Residence iv prison is deemed to be absence from the colony. Registrars of old age pensions will be appointed, who will investigate claims and require the evidence to be given on oath, and will fix the amouui of pension. The claimant may appeal against the Registrar's decision to a Stipendiary Magistrate, who will then fix the rate of pensions. Pensions will be paid weekly at Money Order and Post Offices. Moneys required for payment are to be raised either by primage duty on imports, wages tax on salaries from 30s, and limit of income tax exempting graduated Land and Income Tax, increase of death duties, or other means.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1896, Page 2
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173Old Age Pension Bill. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1896, Page 2
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