AIDING COMMITTEE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 74, 29 March 1938, Page 8

AIDING COMMITTEE.

EXPERT SECRETARIAT. HEALTH AND PENSIONS. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT. (By Tolc^mpli.—Press Association.) WKLLLVHTOX. this tiny. An expert secretariat is to be appointed by 11 u- ( Sovernnient to a~si-t tile Parliamentary Select l'<>nimittee to ex ami no the t .'overnmciit * proposals for national superannuation and health insurance services. 1 nforipfi t ion regarding the operation nf similar schemes in other parts of the world will lie analysed, and phase* that have .muiic application to New Zealand conditions " ill lie prepared by the secretariat lor the guidance of the committee. The committee \\ ill hold its first meet in:: to-morrow week. The Prime Minister, the !\t. Hon. M. J. Savase. stated this evcninir that .several a ppoint ments had already been made to the secretariat. Mr. <J. H. Maddex. the liritish < .'m eminent actuarial expert, who was on loan to the New Zealand (I'overnnient. would be a member, and the.' a"i «t ant- -ern-t ary to the Treasury. Mr. H. ('. Asliwin. and Mr. .T. S. Keid. of the stair of the Minister of Finance, hud also been appointed. The Health Department would probably be. represented bv the Direct or-l leneral of Health. Dr. M. 11 Watt. X\v secretary of the Department. Mr. A. V. Kei»enl>erg. and Mr. I'. K. Wynne. Returned With Minister. Mi. Maddex is one of tin senior oflicers of the ISritish (lovernmi nt's actuaries Department. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and has been a lecturer of the institute. Mr. Maddex has been engaged in the tictuarial side of health. ]iensi«n and unemployment insurance schemes in (ireat Britain. He returned witli the Minister of Finance, the Hun. W. Nash, from London hist year, beinu on loan to the New Zealand (iovcrnmcnt to as-ist with the formulation of national superannuation and health insurance schemes.

-Mr. lu'id. wlio is ;i liacholor of Laws or .New Zealand I "ni vor.-i ty. has boon all iii-hod to tho -tall' of tho .Ministry of linanoo for the past two yours. He is a. liurristor aiKl solicitor of the Supreme Court and a member of tho iirm of Kotliw.ll and Koid, Lower liutt. Air. Koid lias token an active part in the propa ration of now legislation, and assisted in the preparation of the MortL'.airors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act. He is a member of Departmental committees on land and income tax revision and on notional health and superannuation.