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Old-Age Pensions in Australasia

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 32.

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Old-Age Pensions in Australasia

New Zealand has for some time been giving a weekly pension of about $1.70 to all needy men and women who are sixty-five years old and over. New South Wales follows with a weekly pension of $2.43. These different amounts are about the same, considering expense of living. This is a little more expensive than the almshouse, but less trouble and less humiliating to the recipient. Hearty support to the measure came from all parties. It was considered but a just debt to the former generation. And why not?