DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 16 August 1944, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

CHILD FATALLY BURNED. P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 15. Burns that later proved fatal, were received to-day by Flora Lorraine Schmidt, aged six years, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scnmidt. of Okau, when her nightdress caught fire, as she was sitting in front of the kitchen range. She was taken immediately to the New Plymouth Hospital .where she died a few hours after admission. RAILWAYMEN’S DEMAND. P.A. WANGANUI, August 15. A protest at what they described as “a Government failure to redeem preelection promises to adjust glaring anomalies respecting superannuation,” was expressed at a mass meeting of railwaymen in Wanganui when a resolution of protest was carried, stating: “Social security has materially altered the whole question of State superannuation schemes. We claim that the benefits gained by payment of contributions have no more rignt to be regarded as a bar to full social security benefits than the ordinary savings of a non-contributor to the superannuation fund. We claim also that payment of social and national security tax that our memebrs are called upon to meet is the very antithesis of fair treatment.”