THE OLD AGE PENSION.
MR. FISHER'S KKQUEST
Dy Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, February -23.
Though the receipt of an old age pension is not an acceptance of charity, there are many pensioners and, their relatives who are sensitive on this point, and the Hon. F. M. It. Fisher is consulting their feelings in asking the press of the Dominion to avoid what seems to be a very general practice, if anything happens to an old age pensioner, of mentioning that the individual was a pensioner.
''The newspapers will do me a kindness if they refrain from that practice," said Mr. Fisher. "It is an unnecessary detail which does not obtrude, for instance, into an obituary notice of an ex-civil servant who was a pensioner. It does nobody any good, and it hurts the feelings of pensioners' relatives."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 237, 25 February 1913, Page 5
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136THE OLD AGE PENSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 237, 25 February 1913, Page 5
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