SOCIAL SECURITY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 6

SOCIAL SECURITY

ULTIMATE EXTENSION TO COVER EVERYBODY By Telegraph—Press Association WANGANUI, June 15. Cordial receptions have been accorded the Prime Minister, the Rt. Eon. M. J. Savage, in every locality visited in the Wanganui district. Mr Savage arrived at Marton for lunch to-day and came on from there to the school at Turakina. After a brief address to the children, he travelled to Ratana Pa and saw the famous Ratana Temple and museum of quaint Maori relics. He was greeted by lusty singing at the Ratana school and was afterwards accorded a typical Ratana welcome from 500 Maoris assembled in the meeting house and headed by Mr T. W. Ratana. After leaving the Pa, Mr Savage, who was accompanied by the Hon. P. C. Webb, motored to the Eastown railway workshops and there, to the accomment of the shops’ brass band, received another warm welcome. There was a packed audience at the Opera House to meet the Prime Minister and hear his quiet eulogy of the Government. Mr Savage referred to the Government’s social security scheme, stating that it was the intention to extend it eventually to include all sections of the community. Naturally it was only right to start at the lower end of the wage scale and 80 per cent of the people would come under the scheme as at present constituted. “The other 20 per cent, will not,’ 1 ' said Mr Savage, “and good luck to them.’’ At each meeting Mr Savage made it clear that he was not present to talk politics but to meet the people as a friend.