27 JULY 1907, Page 15

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"]

last week's Spectator in your article on "Old-Age Pensions" you say :—" No doubt the amount expended in out-relief would be considerably diminished." Will this be im? At a recent meeting of the Farnham Board of Guardians a man of about seventy applied for relief on the ground that his only income was a pension of 5s. a week from a former