DAME ENID LYONS
CONTENTION OVER ANNUITY BILL PROPOSED COMPROMISE. ALLOWANCE TO CHILDREN REDUCED. Ely Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This. Dav. 12.20 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. The Federal Ministry’s Bill to provide annuities of £5OO a year for Dame Enid Lyons and her children is to be substantially amended. The Ministry made this decision after it had encountered unexpected trouble in the House of Representatives when it introduced the Bill.
When it became apparent that the Ministry would be defeated if it pressed the measure in its present form, at the suggestion of the Prime Minister (Mr R. G. Menzies) a committee consisting of two members of each party reviewed the proposals. As a result of these deliberations, new proposals were placed before members of the various parties which will probably result in '.he following arrangement being accepted by the House:—The annuity to Dame Enid will remain at £509, provided she does not re-marry. An annuity on a sliding scale will be paid to the children until the youngest is sixteen years of age, not twenty-one years as proposed in the present Bill. The amount, will fall by about £B5 a year until, when the youngest child reaches sixteen, it will disappear altogether.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 8
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