TRADE UNIONS MEET

Evening Star, Issue 23725, 5 November 1940, Page 10

TRADE UNIONS MEET

REVIEW BY FINANCE MINISTER PARTY LCYALTY REAFFIRMED [Pjsb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 4. A hope that the doctors would agree to operate the general medical practitioner scheme under the Social Security Act at an early date was expressed by the Minister of Finance (Mr Nash) at a private meeting of delegates of Labour Kepresentation Committees and trade union executives to-night. There was an attendance of 700 delegates. In reply to a question, Mr Nash said that proposals wore at present being drafted lor submission to the doctors in connection with the operation of the scheme.

Mr Nash reviewed the various problems encountered by the Government since it took office, particularly those related to the excessive withdrawals from the Post Office Savings Bank in 1938-39,' the fall in overseas exchange late in 1938, the renewal of the £17,000.000 loan in London, and the war, and said that each in turn had been overcome.

The mooting, which included several Auckland members of Parliament, carried the following resolution by acclamation:—“That this meeting of delegates of the Auckland, Auckland Suburbs, Waitemata, Onehunga, and Otahuhu Labour llepresentation Committees and trade union executives, after hearing Mr Nash, places on record its whole-hearted confidence in him and the present Labour Government, and gives its sincere assurance to the Prime Minister of its loyalty and determination to wort for the success of the Government and the Labour Party.”