SOCIAL SECURITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 6

SOCIAL SECURITY

ADDRESS BY MR. COMBS

%;. There was a good attendance of ,„..'electors at the Public Hall, Wainui-o-Jmata. on Saturday evening, when Mr. H. E. Combs, Labour candidate for Wellington Suburbs, continued his cam:"paign. Mr. Bryan Heath presided, and, l^at- the conclusion of his address, Mr. ,' Combs was accorded a vote of thanks ''.', on the motion of Mr. E. K. Rishworth, .seconded/by Mr. W. Davidson. ■; The candidate again called attention ,' to the fact that the Nationalist mani- *"; festo drew a line -between women with * private means up to £5 a week and ' women with an income from salary or wages to the same amount. The '" Nationalists proposed to exempt the ' first group from paying towards social ..security benefits, but specifically ex- . eluded wage and salary earning women ' from such exemptions. He urged all women to read the manifesto again and 'see if they could place any other construction on the words "other than wages" as included in the exemption statement. Mr. Combs also referred to the telegraphed message from Auckland stating that the doctors of Great Britain -had forwarded £500 to the New Zea- . 'land branch of the B.M.A. to assist in the campaign against the universal | general practitioner service expressed! under the Labour's social security plan. This-, hardly dovetailed with the ''. activities of the B.M.A. in awakening 'public opinion in Great Britain to the need for an extension to the industrial "insurance plan so that it could be made a national scheme. He drew attention - to the' full-page advertisement in Lon- - don "Punch" of July last inserted by • the B.M.A. representing 37,000 medical men, in. all branches of the profession hi Gre&t Britain to this end. It was quite clear, not only from the mani-j

festo^but, also from the Nationalist candidates* addresses, that if New Zealand wanted social security they must vote for the party that was pledged to operate, the plan as from April 1 next —the Tuabour Party.