NATIONAL HEALTH & SUPERANNUATION

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 151, 23 March 1938, Page 10

NATIONAL HEALTH & SUPERANNUATION

Investigation To Start On April 5 EDUCATION COMMITTEE TO MEET ALSO Members of the special Parliamentary committee which is to investigate proposals for national superannuation and national health insurance are to hold their first meeting on April 5. Au announcement that the initiatemeetiug had been fixed for that day was mane by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, at the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting last evening. The committee is to examine the Government’s proposals for the establishment of a national health service for the purpose of ensuring to all persons ordinarily resident in New Zealand adequate medical, surgical, pharmaceutical, dental, hospital, nursing or other treatment necessary to maintain sound physical and mental health and to assist recovery in the event of sick' ness. , . . The committee is also to inquire into the Government’s plans for establishing national superannuation with the aim of making provision so that all persons ordinarily resident in the Dominion will be assured of au adequate income to maintain them in reasonable 1 comfort when they become unable to support themselves by reason of old age, sickness, infirmity or other disability, or on account of widowhood or other special conditions. The committee’s order of'-reference provides that its report# is to be presented to the House of Representatives within 28 days of the start of next session of Parliament. Its proceedings will be open to the Press. According to a statement made last evening by the Minister of Education, Hon. P. Fraser, it is probable that the Education Committee of the House of Representatives will also be called together for its first meeting on April 5. The committee has z authorised to sit' during the recess to consider the principles and provisions generally of the Education Amendment Bill, which proposes several major reforms Jn the educational system. This committee is to report to the House within 14 days of the commencement of next session. Mr. Fraser said that full opportunity would be given to all interested par ties to express their views. /