‘Dangers’ seen in community bill
The proposed Community Services Bill should be approached with great caution, the president of the Social Workers’ Association (Mr M. O’Brien) said in Christchurch. Mr O’Brien said his association had sent telegrams to the member of Parliament for Rangiora (Mr D. F. Quiglev) who had placed the bill before Parliament, the Minister of Social Welfare (Mr Walker), and the Labour Party spokesman on social welfare (Mr Connelly), urging them to note “real dangers” in the bill.
Establishing an administrative structure through which people between the ages of 15 and 25 could do unpaid volunteer community service might rob the communitv of much spontaneous . "volunteering,” Mr O’Brien said. This could work onlv to the detriment of agencies and organisations who now relied on such support, he said. Mr O’Brien said that his association had urged the three members of Parliament to refer the bill to a select I committee.
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