SOCIAL SECURITY
Criticism of the National Party's proposed measures to replace,, the Social Security Act was made by Mr. H. E. Combs, Labour candidate for Wellington Suburbs, when addressing a well-attended meeting at Belmont last evening. Electors had the assurance of the National Party leaders tfiat they would not operate the Act should they be returned to the Treasury benches, so if the electors wanted the plan they must vote Labour, said Mr. Combs. Under the National Party's social security scheme women w.puld:bg exempt from payment if they had income other than wages npt exceeding £250 a year, but a woman earning £5 a week would have to contribute'ss. Who was better able to pay-t-the man who was raising a faimily and had a wife to share his income, or the spinster who was earning £5 a week? The Labour Party made no exemption whatever.
The meeting was presided over by Mr. ,D. Hargreaves, and a motion of confidence was carried enthusiastically.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 8
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