WIDOWS' PENSIONS, mile the Pensions Department vote was going through eonum«ee on Tue=dav night Mr Poland asked if it was proposed to do anything this session to Lprove miners' and The Minister of Pensions stated .hat the cost of the proposed ..alterations , . , 4.t,„ ".,,,, of *-">56.f'00, and would involve the 01 —u,vuu, would practically mean the recasting of thc Government's taxation proposals. He was quite prepared to ask Camnet *> do something, that is so far as the money available would go. Tne shortace o'f funds at the. Government's disposal is again the difficulty, ana vet tne Moderate League and the Trad,. a*? m «\ n * the State Purchase of the Liquor Traffic at a cost to the country of from £lO 000,000 to £15,000,000. timianee of the Liquor Traw waste, and the expenditure of : badlv needed for pensions, etc. A vote for Prohibition is one for the widows and orphans every time.
The Bed Cross authorities report that there are 124.000 case* of tjrpfcus in Poland, acd there is urgent need for cloihihg, medical stores ana blan-
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 13 October 1919, Page 3
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