OLD AGE PENSIONS
A FAR-REACHING JUDGMENT.
By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, February 15.
The King's Bench Division, Dublin, heard a test case affecting old age pensions totalling a quarter of a million, and upheld the discontinuance of a pension on the ground that the "pensioner was under 70 years of age, ..'■ ADOPTED BY FRANCE. MODELLED ON GERMAN LINES. Paris, February 15. the French Chamber of Deputies, having twice rejected the Senate's Old Age Pensions Bill on the ground that it was crude and ill-considered, prepared a new measure which it unanimously adopted. The Bill is moulded upon the German lines, workmen and employers contributing equal portions to the pensions and the State adding further contributions.
The age limit is 65. The men contribute nine francs a year, women six francs, and boys four and a-half francs.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 317, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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135OLD AGE PENSIONS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 317, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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