SOCIAL SECURITY.
MERGED WITH LODGE FUNDS. i, FRIENDLY SOCIETIES CRITICISED. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, September 29. .Describing its action as “high handed,” two speakers at the half-yearly meeting of tho Otago (District Committee of the Manchester Unity yesterday strongly criticised the Dominion Friendly Societies’ Council in Wellington for its negotiations 'with the Social Security Department over sick pay due to lodge members. The speakers, Provincial Treasurer Bro. W. R. Sellar and P. Stabb, described. tlie Council’s action as a case of the tail wagging the. dog and said bo refused, as a trustee, to allow social security moneys to be merged with lodge funds and then paid out again to beneficiaries by secretaries. Bro. Sellar sought the passing of a resolution, to cancel affiliation, with the Council, but it was eventually decided to set up a special committee' to consid'er the question of affiliation and report in six months’ time.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 303, 30 September 1940, Page 3
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