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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 272, 16 November 1929, Page 10

"Demoralising System."

The next witness was Mr. A. G. Lunn, past-president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. It was his opinion that if • a sound and economical scheme was brought into operation it would undoubtedly receive the full suport of the chamber. In regard to the economic pension, the chamber was of the opinion that the present system, by which if the man . obtained work and earned money the pension was correspondingly reduced, tended to' demoralise him and discourage. the desire to work. It was thought that this should be remedied, and that the reduction of pension should represent only a part of the earnings. The suggestion of the Returned Soldiers' Association's committee for a 'corps of commissionaires was strongly supported by Mr. W. Slaughter, officer in change of the Auckland office of the Labour Department. Witness thought the scheme could be carried out without any serious undermining of the principles of trade unionism. There was no sitting of the commission 'tfhis morning, when the members visited the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, the Veterans' Home, and the T.B. shelters at the Auckland Hospital. It is expected that the commission, which visited the Evelyn Firth Home yesterday, will conclude its Auckland inquiries on Monday. •