WIDOWS’ PENSIONS.
While the Pensions Department vote was going through; Committee on Tuesday night, Mr Poland asked if it was proposed to do anything this session to improve miners’ and widows’ pensions. *Tho Minister of Pensions stated that the cost of the proposed alterations would involve the sum of £286,000, and would practically mean the re-easting of the Government’s .taxation proposals. He was quite prepared to ask Cabinet to do something, that is so far as the money available would go. The shortage of funds at the Government's disposal is again the difficulty, and yet the Moderate League and the Trade are urging the Stale Purchase of the Liquor Trallic at a cost to the country of __ from £10,000,000 to £15,000,000! S The continuance of the Trade spells waste, and the expenditure of money badly needed for pensions, etc. A vote for Prohibition is one for the widows and orphans every lime.*
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2040, 11 October 1919, Page 2
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152WIDOWS’ PENSIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2040, 11 October 1919, Page 2
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