ISSUE NEVER DISCUSSED
COUNTRY QUOTA PROBLEM SOCIAL ACT BENEFITS (Per Pross Association.) MARTON, this day. In the course of a long address at the Civic Theatre last evening, the Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, who was accorded a quiet hearing, referred to the issues raised by the Nationalists concerning the country quota and social security taxation. “I can say safely that the matter was never discussed, simply because it; has never been contemplated and the Labour Party attaches no importance to it whatsoever,” he said when asked whether it was intended to abolish the country quota. “I doubt whether it would make any material difference to the present proportiop of representation,” he added. The Minister declared that the statements of Mr. S. G. Smith and the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates to the effect that the benefits of social security would be subject to tax were “either deliberate misrepresentation or they do not understand the legislation.” The Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. M. ,1. Savage, ana me Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Nash had given a definite assurance and that was final.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 11 October 1938, Page 6
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184ISSUE NEVER DISCUSSED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 11 October 1938, Page 6
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