MANY AS POSSIBLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19860, 10 February 1939, Page 14

MANY AS POSSIBLE

[SECURITY ACT BENEFITS PAYMENT FEOM APRIL 1 NO TAX SUSPENSION SERVICES NOT AVAILABLE (Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The mtention of the Government to make every payment possible under the Social Security Act as from April 1, was mentioned by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, when his attention was drawn to a remit passed by the Hastings' branch of the Farmers' Union. The branch asked if the Government proposed to suspend the taxation necessary to meet the benefits under the Act that would not be available at the beginning of April. "The answer is no," said Mr. Savage. "We do not agree that any of the benefits are going to be suspended. We are going to have them inaugurated as rapidly as we can. Every payment that can be will be made at the appropriate time. • "1 am sure the great majority of farmers realise the value Cf the social security .scheme, and no section of the community can say that they will never need it. "The whole of the superannuation and pension payments will be paid as from April 1, and as many other payments as possible. The few that cannot be made will follow in quick succession. "The Minister cf Health has already had a discussion with representatives of the medical profession, and the whole question of making arrangement with, the doctors and the others concerned in the health side of the scheme _is going forward as rapidly as possible. "The Government has to see that decent arrangements are made with these people. The Labour Government cannot afford to be accused of laying down conditions that are not fair and equitable to those giving the service."