FARMERS' AFFAIRS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1937, Page 10

FARMERS' AFFAIRS

SOUTH TARANAKI UNION. ACCIDENT INSURANCE PREMItJM. "It is an anomalous thing that an accident insurance premiuin - paid' for one's employees can* be dediicted from income for the purposes of employment tax assessment, but one's own personal premium . cannot be thus ^ deducted, said Mr." W. Ai Sheat,' who' presided at the monthly. meeting of the South' Taranaki executive oi the Faririers' Union at Hawera yesterday. It was decided- to endorse and send forward to the Dominion executive a resolution of the Eltham branch asking that personal accident premiums should be aliowed as employment tax dcductions where the taxpayer was not covered by the Workers Compensation Act.' A resolution that an inexpensive form of members' personal accident and sickness. insurance scheme should be arranged was deferred... An allegation of unfairness in the charges of . solicitors for their services in mortgage adjustments was contained in a letter received. It was decided that the matter " be " investigated, -afid*** should specific instances be found they would be brought before , the ; . chairman of the Mortgage Commission. Representation at the Dominion conference was discussed hi committee, and a committee of- five was appointed to meet a similar number from the North Taranaki executive to discuss the matter. Those appointed were' Messrs. W. A. Sheat (chairman), E. K. Cameron (secretary), A. B. Muggeridge, D. Wards and L. Preece. Endorsement of the. nomuiation of Mr. W. E. Carter, a member of the Mangatoki branch, for provincial life membership was made by' the meeting. An address on natiorial health insurance .was given by Dr. G. Home, New Plymouth. He said there was no urgency, excluding political reasons, for the sudden establishment of such a scheme. He advocated the adoption of the British Medical Association 's. schem'e, which, although . having. as its basis the same ambition as that of the - Government, the bodily wellbeing of the people, was not so drastic in its .introduction;