SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONERS
A largely attended meeting of. old age and other pensioners was. held in. the Trades Hall this week to. hear an address by Mr. T. H. Megann, president and organiser of the Auckland branch of the Social Security Age Pensioners' and Widows* Association. • The speaker outlined the objects of the organisation, which included the'-im-provement of the economic condition of people who through age or infirmity were badly handicapped in the struggle for existence. The inadequacy of the present pension with the increasing cost of living was discussed, as: tyere the various anomalies in the Social Security Act, such as hospital fee&land deductions from permitted earnings. A motion that a branch be established in Wellington was carried unanimously, Ind the following were elected ass.'■exe-cutive:—-President, Mr. Wm. Atkinson; vice-president, Mr. M. Hy.lfmd; .treasurer, Mrs. Gambell; secretary-,;Mr. L. Diamond; committee, Messrs. "Hamilton, Cooper, Wright, Gearing, "."and Rose. •'■. ■ -.■.■ -': ■' ■". , ,-V" ' ■■'' ;:.'.-.: :■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 67, 20 March 1943, Page 6
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