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Video about the breaking up of Cheviot Hills estate in 1893

A world first, the Act gave a small means-tested pension to destitute older people who were 'of good moral character'; Chinese were specifically excluded. It was one of the major achievements of Richard Seddon's Liberal government.

Ballance was the first Liberal Premier. He laid the foundation for a government that supposedly made New Zealand ‘the social laboratory of the world’.