SUPERANNUATION
NATIONAL SCHEME Will Be Law During Present Session STATEMENT BY MINISTER ( Per Press Association. ) WELLINGTON. Oct. 7. ■‘The national superannuation scheme which is now under consideration. and which will be placed on the Statutes Book before the end of the present session of Parliament, will remove that spectre of want and poverty which haunts so many citizens who fear they will have no adequate measure of comfort in their declining years,” said Hon. W. Lee Martin, .Minister in Charge of friendly Societies, responding to a toast at a tea given by the Southern Cross Lodge, No. 24, Independent Order of Oddfellows of New Zealand, in celebration of its diamond jubilee on Saturday evening.
The influence of the friendly society members in Parliament, he said, had had a good deal to do with the modelling of this type of legislation. Commenting on the assertion that friendly society work lifted men for Parliament, Mr. Lee Martin referred to the late John Ballance as a notable example of a parliamentarian who received his early training in that sphere. Much of the legislation that Ballance had introduced was reflected in the policy of the present Government.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 247, 18 October 1937, Page 8
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