§ MR. FELLI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer on what basis the £30 worth of furniture, referred to in the instructions to the pension officers, was calculated; and was it adopted as the British equivalent of the £50 real and personal property allowed to be deducted under the New Zealand Pension Act, 1898.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEThe test applied in the selection of a limit of allowance for furniture was what might reasonably be required to make a home habitable, and it was felt that a sum not exceeding £30 would meet the case. This conclusion was reached quite independently of the limit adopted under the New Zealand Pension Act, 1898.