HC Deb 22 October 1908 vol 194 c1327
MR. FELL (Great Yarmouth)

To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if the exemption of furniture from the calculation of the means of applicants for pensions in New Zealand and in the Australian Colonies is provided for in the Pension Acts in force in those Colonies, or is only sanctioned by the instructions issued to the pension officers.

(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) I cannot find any provision either in the New Zealand Act or in the new Commonwealth Act, which would have the effect of exempting the value of furniture owned by a claimant to an old age pension from inclusion in the calculation of his accumulated property for the purposes of these Acts, nor am I aware that it is exempted.