NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND.
LECTURING CAMPAIGN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 29.
In committee on tlio Estimates this evening Mr Russell inquired if the State was going to' continue to push the National Provident Fund by means of a lecturer. He regarded this fund as so important in the ini' rests of this country and as a means of biy lessening the charges of old ago ...ions that he sincerely hoped an enercampaign would be undertaken for .. purpose of instructing the people of tho c.>iiinry ;n the benefits that were derivable ire.ni participating in the fund. Tiio lion. Jas. Alien said that a lecturer had been regularly employed in the public interest, and that he would be continued. Air Anderson inquired if tho Government had under consideration the possibility of extending the system. Under the present law when a man reached £2OO a year in salary lie ceased to be eligible to become a member of the fund. Mr Allen said that legislation dealing with this National Provident Fund had been placed upe>n tho Statute Hook only recently. • Tho Government so far hael not given consideration to tho possibilities of any amendments up to tho present. No doubt it would have to be reviewed in the future, but so far that time had not come.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 30
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