SOCIAL SECURITY
210,000 BENEFICIARIES
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
ROTORUA, This Day
An announcement that there were 210,000 beneficiaries under various sections of the Social Security Act in the Dominion was made by one of the commissioners, Mr. J. H. Boyes, during an official visit to Rotorua. Of these, 25.000 were in receipt of war pensions. Payments under the maternity section of the Act had been more numerous than estimated.
Referring to the shortage of stall' faced by the Social Security Department, in common with other employers, Mr. Boyes said the Department had not appealed for any members balloted and he did nof. think it would do so. Replacements were being made by women, many of them married, and boys just leaving school. He recalled that during the last war 80 per cent, of the staff of the War Pensions Department had been women, few of whom had had any previous commercial experience, but the work was carried on quite efficiently.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1941, Page 10
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