PENSIONS FOR POLITICIANS.
The latent npipo-irltaioirts to the Legislative Council' of New Zealand can 1 only ibe .regarded in the light of old ago pensions. Each of the appointees is over seventy years iof age,, and each, has <rjndercd years of .se/rvice to the State. Would it 'not ibe more in accordance with popular sentiment that a fixed pension .should be. provided for any politician, who lias spent -say, twenty years in the service of the State? The head of a Department cf State can retire, on -superannuation, at the ago of sixty-five, and live in cemparative -comfort in 'his declining years, notwithstanding that he may have feein drawing .anytihing <up to £IOOO a year in salary. Why •should not the politician who has sacrificed .himself on the altar cf .public duty ib'si eimilariy treated? The Legislative Cbuneil, winch, to bs effective', should bave the- services of mco who- rare mentally and phyeiear.ly vigorous, should not be constituted a "Home cf Rest" for political derelicts.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10668, 25 June 1912, Page 4
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165PENSIONS FOR POLITICIANS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10668, 25 June 1912, Page 4
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