104 ASPECTS OF OLD AGE PENSIONS. 



OLD AGE PENSIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALSS, 



VICTORIA, AND NEW ZEALAND. 

 (Based upon Latest Official Publications.) 



*Partly estimated. 



t Since this paper was read, an amending Act has been passed in New 

 Zealand. The new provisions are:— (1) An increase of pension from £18 to ;t26. 



(2) An increase from £52 to £(iO of the amount of income required to disqualify. 



(3) An increase of joint income required to disqualify (with pension added) from 

 £78 to £90. (4) An equal division ot property between husband and wife. (5) An 

 increase of the deduction from property in certain cases from £50 to £150. 



THE REAL MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. 



The satisfaction of the wants of man is the mainspring 

 of all his activities. Wants are interminable. Some 

 satisfactions affect his very existence from day to day, while 

 others only concern in greater or lesser degree his comfort 

 or happiness. But whatever eccentricities may be ex- 

 hibited by isolated individuals at times, it is unmistakable 

 that the intensity of the struggle for the satisfaction of 



