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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 1926

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THE EXPERIENCE OF NEW

'ZEALAND.

(FROM "THE TIMES'

NEW

ZEALAND

CORRESPONDENT.]

In 1888 New Zealand passed the first Old Age Pensions Act, and inaugurated a system which has since been steadily extended. At that time there were in the country many of the old pioneers who had nobly taken their part in laying the foundations of the Colony. Some of them, the more fortunate, had obtained their reward; others had battled with the bush and the wilderness, and had Bown the seeds of prosperity which others world gamer. Their utmost thrift had been unable to assure. for them adequate provision for their old age, and it was rightly held that the community owed them something more than charity.

So it was decreed that women of 60 and men of 63 who had resided in the Colony for 5 years and were of good character should be entitled to a pension. The maximum persion was first fixed at 6. 11d. a week, reducible according to the possessions and earnings of the pen- sioner. The amount has gradually been increased, both as regards the maximum pension and the allowances Tor property and earnings, and at the. present time the maximum is 17s. 6d. and the pro- perty exemption permits the ownership of a cottage holding of reasonable value. the The cost of these pensions to. community is not light, and each year it becomes greater. It is not surprising, then, that the present Government have come to doubt whether the system is as well based as was originally believed, and to question whether it should not be remodelled. The Minister of Pensions (Mr. G. J. Anderson), expressed the opinion last session that a remodelling must be undertaken, and he proposed to have a Bill prepared embodying a Bystem of contributory pensions. It should be. explained that the old-age" pensions are not the only such charge upon Dominion funds. 2

VARIETY OF PENSIONS. Apart from war pensions there are the following:-

Widows' pensions (introduced 1912).- Payable to widows with a child or chil- dren under the age of 14, at the rate of 10s. weekly for the widow and 108. for each child, with an income limitation, but liberal exemption of earnings.

Miners' pensions-Payable to miners: incapacitated by miners' phthisis or to their widows, varying from 178. ed. weekly for a widow to £ 158. for à married man or widower with children

-Pensions for the blind (introduced 1924)-At the rate of 158. weekly, re- ducible according to property held, but increased by subsidies on earnings with a maximum of earnings and pension of £3 10s. weekly.

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For all these persions there are con ditions regarding the period of residence in New Zealand. In addition, there are liberal pensions for the widows and children of men who died in the 1918-10 influenza empidemic, but these constitute a special case and do not affect the general pension principle.

On March 31st, 1923, the numbers and annual values of pensions in force were as follows:-

Old age Widows Miners

Blind

Epidemic

Annual Number: Value.

£850,795. 22,002

3,595 281,141

607

37,934

114

366

4,485 18,228

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This is a heavy bill, 26,748 pensioners at a cost of £1,190,581, in a population of a little over a million and a quarter.

The weak points in the system are: (1) that it affords no incentive to thrift, and is, indeed, based primarily - úpon necessity and only partly on merit; (2) there is a temptation for a popularly elected Assembly to seek credit. by ad-i rocating greater benefits, and the Finance! Minister who endeavours to resist this vicarious generosity mast be prepared to face charges of callousness and insen-i sibility to the hardships of the aged and, needy. At one time the system of old- age pensions directly discouraged thrift is indicated by a variety of distressing symp toms rach as pain after eating, headache, by making considerable deductions on account of savings. This fault has been lethargy and sleeplessness, and if neglected it of removed to some extent by more liberal eventually leads to a dangerous condition of exemptions of property; but the pension gastritis or dyspepsia. If the experience.

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43 YEARS' RECORDS OF A VAST -CONTINENT. --

Professor Sir Edgeworth David, An- tarctic explorer and scientist, has dis- covered a rather strenuous way of spend ing the holiday he has permitted himself of a few months in England from hia work as professor of geology in the University of Sydney.

Sir Edgeworth, who arrived in Lon- don from Australia last month, had barely reached the house of his son in Maida Vale when he began work on the book he is preparing on the geology of the Commonwealth.

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The task is one that might daunt a much younger man, but Sir Edgeworth David, at the age of 67, is not deterred at all by the mass of material of the most valuable kind that he has to summarisc in relation to an area that is three million square miles in extent.

43 YEARS IN AUSTRALIA.

*The task is considerable one," he admitted to an Evening Standard re- -presentative, for this is really the first At present the Dominion has various attempt to put together not only my systems, of superannuation for public own observations during my forty three servants and employees of municipal cor-years work in Australia, but the labours porations and public bodies. All these of the various surveys, in Australia and are contributory, and it is a condition of my own colleagues.

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and symptoms together. Biruzated" mais obtainable at any chemists or stores in Yet strangely enough it does pot af both powder and tablet forms at small cost, but pear that the payment of pensions with be convinced that medical experience knows out contributions is causing a greater best and take na sabalitate. Get Bisurated proportion of people to rely upon this Magnesia, with the oral Bismag" trade mark provision for old age. On March 31st, on the rapper, and so get a real remedy at 1915 there were 19,359 old age pensioners, last equal to 1.08 per cent. of the population The number of pensioners has gradually increased, but the percentage has fallen. On March 31st, 1925, the number was 22,002 and the percentage 1.59. Over the same period the bill has increased from £480,814 to £550,795. Of course, the war and the increased cost of living account in large measure for the heavier charge of employment that the employees join I have to summarise and co-ordinate but there is a distinct tendency to in- the fund. Generous subsidies are paid a great mass of material on which érease the benefits, apart from such by the State and the local authorities. started before the war. For the last There is also a National Provident three years I have been trying to make

AEROPLANE FOR SURVEYS, Moreover, na oldage pensions have Fund, open to all persons with incomes up arrears, for during the war I was

Naturally the work has been rather been followed by miners (an industrial not in excess of £300 a year, and giving busy in helping to get together two pension), widows, and blind pensions, various benefits including pensions thousand military miners for the front, arduous, had in the thousands of miles I have travelled many and various have so there is a demand for further exten: This fund also is subsidized by the end in other tasks. sions to include sickness and unemploy Government, and receipt of a pension

causes

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"I went out to Australia more than been the forms of transport relied upon. ment benefits. If such new pensions, from the National Provident Fund does forty years ago, and after being geolo Camels, donkeys, horses, motor-cars," and higher payments for the widows, the not affect the contributor's claim to thecal surveyor to the Government of trains, buggies, have all served me well blind, and the aged, are all to be made old-age pension. But it does not appear New South Wales for nine years went to and even bullock days; in fact, every

thing except the aeroplane.. from the Consolidated Fund, it must that all the people, will use this system Syney University. The book, of course,But the seroplane is an extremely mean heavier general taxation. And to make provision for old age and kick- there will still be no certain means of ness when they can obtain other benefits in based on my long experience of the useful machine to Australia, and in this checking the grants. A compulsory can without contribution. To remove the country, and I suppose there are few mapping of great territories machines tributory system would at least provide anomaly it certainly seems that the con- people who have travelled more extent have proved of the utmost wility. They have often been used in connection with tributory system must be made general rively across it.

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