OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
LONDON, January 17. ' Mr P.- Snowden, M.P. for Blackburn and chairman of the Independent Labour party, in an interview, severely criticised iMr- Asquith'e old-age pensions forecast. He said he feared it was - the intention of the Government to cast a portion of the ■ Kurden on the local authorities, which apeant the retention of the- stigma attaching ,to poor law relief. The explanation of the Liberals that part of 1 the cost being derived from the Tates was really a relief j ti> the rates, as *it relieved the country of payment in anotheT- direction, was a. "Conservative idea. He could foresee that •there would be a further tax on the necessaries of life, which was an infringement" of the principles of L/obdenism."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 19
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124OLD-AGE PENSIONS. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 19
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