NICE LEGAL POINTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 14 February 1912, Page 5

NICE LEGAL POINTS.

ILLEGAL SUPPLY OF LIQUOR TO NATIVES.

OLD-AGE PENSIONS,

Some interesting statements, were given our reporter this moining j tae Clerk of the Court (Mr. I. Bird) with regard to two informations which have been laid against persons fox supplying liquor on the baatlord-le Worn railway to natives, and also concerning the application of the latest amendment of the Old-age 1 cisions Act. , With regard to the former, he said that it was not generally known that the Stratford district was included in the Taranaki Maori Council distiict a district proclaimed by the Governor to be one in which liquor shall not bo supplied to natives by any .person, wnether a licensed person or not, tor consumption off licensed premises. The cases will probably be heard or. Friday week. Referring to the old-age pensions. Mr. Bird said there was a great deal o: , ... i naerstan mig in Hio n Persons have been applying for pensions, thinking that the age limit of sixty-five years for both sexes has been reduced to fifty-five years fo; females and sixty years for ”-ales As a matter of fact the reduced age limit only applies to a per sou who has one child, or more, un del- the age of fourteen years dependent on him or A point to be remembered is that where a person is iiC/\v receiving n pension unci huving such child or" children to support, the pensioner should apply for an extension. The exact increase that the pensioner may receive is left to the discretion of the Magistrate, but the sum may amount to the maximum of £l3 per annum, in addition to the pension now being received.