SOCIAL SECURITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26956, 16 December 1948, Page 7

SOCIAL SECURITY

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FIRST MEETING TO BE HELD IN DOMINION NZPA Special Correspondent Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON. Dec. 15. A conference of the mwiy-consti-tuted Committee on Social Security, set up by the International Labour Organisation, will be held in New Zealand —probably in Wellington—early in 1950. This decision was reached unanimously at a recent conference of the governing body of ILO, held at Geneva. When Mr Percy Coyle, Dominion president of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, who represented New Zealand, Australia and South Africa at the conference, supported the New Zealand Government’s invitation to hold the social

security conference in New Zealand, it was generally agreed that New Zealand, as the first country to develop a full system of social security, would be the most appropriate- place for the committee to hold its first meeting. Mr Coyle, who has npw returned to London, said the conference did very useful work, and once again provided an opportunity for a full exchange of views and information on industrial labour matters between representatives of the 51 Governments included in the ILO, representatives of the workers and representatives of the employers. ' New Zealand was commended, said Mr Coyle, for its action in adopting eight ILO conventions since the end of the war. In its support for international industrial legislation, it had been pointed out. New Zealand was second only to Poland, which had adopted 13 conventions. GRATIFYING RESPONSE PA * WELLINGTON, Dec. 15. The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Nash, stated to-night that he had issued the invitation on behalf of the Government for the ILO conference on social security to be held in New Zealand. It was gratifying to know that the invitation had been accepted, and the necessary arrangements for the conference would now "be. gradually worked out. The time and place of the conference, however, had not yet been completed.