Old Age Pensions.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 285, 6 December 1904, Page 3

Old Age Pensions.

STATEMENT BY MR SEDDON. EIGHTEEN POUNDS A YEAR NOT ENOUGH. (Per Press Association.) CRRISTCHURCH, Dec. 2. Speaking to-day on the subject of old age pensions, Mr Seddon said he had nothing to add to what he had told Ma audiences at Nasoby ard Ophii'. He felt very strongly that £lB a year was not enough for any man or woman to live on in this colony now, when the cost of living was increasing, and he hoped to faring about an toprovn meiit. They were doing, very well this* year, and if things want along all right ho would bo to a position to make a proposal to Paii-Homeat. Going among the old settlers in Ouago he had been more Impressed than ever with the claims of the men and women who had really built up the colony's prosperity. He thought ten shiHinga a woex little enough to be paying them, a nd the younger generation should not grudge it. Still he remembered the long fight he had had for the original measure, and he would have to be very sure of his ground before he moved. I