NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14758, 30 August 1913, Page 6

NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND

THE LECTURING CAMPAIGN

(SPECIAL TO "THE PBESS.'M

WELLINGTON. August 29

In committee on the Estimates this evening Mr Russell enquired if tho State was going to continue to push the National Provident Fund, by means of a lecturer. Ho regarded this fund as so important in the interests of this country, and as a means of possibly lessening tho charges of old age pensions, that he sincerely hoped an energetic campaign would* be undertaken for the purpose of instructing the people of the country in the benefits that were derivable from participation-in the fund. The Hon. Janfes Allen said that a lecturer had been regularly employed in the public interests, and that would be continued. '

Mr Anderson enquired if the Government had under consideration the possibility of extending the system. Tjnder the present law when a man reached £200 a year in salary he ceased to bo eligible to become a member of the fund.

Mr Allen said that the legislation dealing with this National Provident Fund had been placed upon the statute book only recently. The Government so far had not given consideration to the possibilities of any- amendments iip to the present. No doubt it would have to be reviewed in the future, but so far that time Lad not couie.