PARLIAMENT.
AFTERNOON SITTING/
(Per Press Ass od atios-I Wellington, last night. '■The Council mot at 2 30. • After farther debating on the Address-in-Beply the Council adjourned till Thursday. ; The House met at 2.30. The debate on the second reading of the Old Age. Pensions Bill was continued throughout the afternoon. _ Mr Taylor moved the following smendment -—" That no Bill dealing with old age pensions will be satisfactory which fails to place the system on a more equit able basis by abolishing the penalties now Imposed upon many thrifty and industrious old' colonists who, because they possess a home valued at .£270, are deDrived of a pension, and the House is of opinion that this injustice should be removed before the pension is tnereassd. jRVBNTNGf SITTING. The House rosutned at 7.80. In reply to the Premior Mr Masney said that he had not boon consulted in regard to Mr Taylor’s amendment. . , Tho debate on the Old Ago Pensions Bill proceeded throughout tho evening,and ' Ss likely to last until tbo aaiallbows ; pf ' ’ paornuis- --'/-v •■■■ .... , v
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1504, 12 July 1905, Page 3
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