§ 4. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Assistant Postmaster-General if he will now take steps to enable old age pensioners to obtain wireless licences at a rate less than that charged to other citizens.
§ Mr. GammansThe Government regret that they are unable to give old age pensioners preferential treatment in this respect.
§ Mr. HughesHas the Minister taken any trouble to inquire what the cost of this concession would be? Does he realise that this class of the community is very hardly hit by the present high cost of living?
§ Mr. GammansSuccessive Governments have had reluctantly to come to the same conclusion in regard to granting any concession to old age pensioners.
§ Mr. Tom BrownIn view of the fact that this Question has appeared so frequently on the Order Paper, does not the Assistant Postmaster-General think it about time the Government gave some sympathetic consideration to the plea put forward by old age pensioners?
§ Mr. GammansBoth this Government and the previous Government gave very careful consideration and sympathetic consideration to the matter but, for the reasons given in this House on many occasions, they have been unable to do anything about it.