EFFECT OF BILL
GREAT SOCIAL CHANGES
A tribute to the work done by the Parliamentary Select Committee was paid by Mr. H. E. Herring (Government, Mid-Canterbury). He said that the whole of the Opposition objection to the Bill seemed to be that the country could not afford it. The country had been able to pay for the war period. "We have most of the resources in the country," he said, "and we should be ashamed to say we cannot afford such a scheme as the Government proposes. In fact, we cannot afford not to adopt it."
Mr. Herring confidently anticipated that the spread of incomes and purchasing power would result in a great social change and great benefit, and in the aggregate would result in a greatly enhanced turnover of income. He declared that they should look after the machinery—the men, women, and children. At present ill health cost the people £15,000,000. Physical exercise was not enough to ensure good health. They must have good food and the ability to buy it. They .had to start a campaign with nutrition as its central feature —not bigger and better hospitals or more and more doctors and nurses.
The House adjourned at 10.30 p.m,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 6
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202EFFECT OF BILL Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 6
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