14 JANUARY 1899, Page 14

OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

[To TIE EDITOR Or TUN " SPROTATOIL"]

SIR,—I think your old-age pension scheme is splendid. The only thing I would suggest is that it is a mistake to utilise the machinery of the union so obviously. The pension of 5s. might be payable at the nearest post-office, might it not, on production of birth certificate, and on the application being countersigned (at the instance of the poet-office people) by the relieving officer, to certify that no disqualifying relief had been received by the applicant P—I am, Sir, &c.,

W. G, Drcirsoic White House,' North Shoebury, Essex, January 2nd.