NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 114, 5 July 1911, Page 6

NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND.

PROVISION FOR MATERNITY CASES. At the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday morning the foiio'wing, letter was received uom Air. ii. ili. Hayes, Superintendent oi mo iNatioual Provident Fuad:—i am Bending you under separate cover some literature descriptive el tno operations of the i\atiouai Id evident I und. I’ll© institutions controlled by your Board oiler one of me nest means or making known me valuanle bencus of tim Act, particularly tue matomity payment of aid, and 1 siiail be glad u tue information can bo so placed as to reach those qualified to become contributors. In any M jour Board's premises permit of exhibiting them 1 can, on yoiti advising me, ’onward csr.dboard' mounted posters setting forth the leading features of tee sbnemo for tire information of the public. 1 shall be pleased to furnish any additional information tiiat may be desired. r ino Inspector-General cl Hospitals -wrote: —I have to-bring under ypur notice se’etion 18 of the National inovideiit Fund Act, Widen reads as follows!—(!,) if the wife of any contributor, or if any contributor (.being a married woman) gives birth in New Zealand to a child or children, anu the joint income of that contributor and his wife or her husband (as too case may be) during the. peiiod oi twelve months immediately preceding the date of such bii tii, • does not exceed two hundred pounds, such contributor, if he has contributed to the fund for a period of not less ta.iu twelvemonths, shall be on titled to receive front the iund the sum of Lb, or such Iqss sum as the Board, in pursuauce of sub-section 3 hercol directs. (2) Applications lor payment of any such sura shall be accompanied - b_v a statutory declaration by the contributor (w hie; i shall bo exempt from stamp duty) that the joint income as aforesaid during trio said period of twelve months did not exceed £2OO. (3) The Board may reduce the said sum oi £6 to the amount of the expenses actually incurred by the contributor in respect of medical attendance. (4) “Medical attendance” for the purposes of the sections means the services of a registered medical practitioner or of a registered midwife, and of !V nurse, at the birth of the child, and at any subsequent time within a pbl’ioci of three weeks during which such services may be required. It was decided to distribute thcjiterdtufe forwarded at the hospital.