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The West Aberdeenshire MP of the time, Mr J.M. Henderson had a take on it. He toured the North East in the January of 1914 speaking to meetings of constituents who were mainly opposed to the idea of state care for the elderly and infirm. At a meeting in Culsalmond he was heckled after saying that farmers did not seem to grasp the idea that the Insurance Act was designed to provide for those workers who having attained the age of 50 and upwards who were unable to work due to illness or disability.