PENSIONS AND HEALTH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 10

PENSIONS AND HEALTH

THE GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSALS

DETAILS EXPECTED MONDAY

[ per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 1

Full details of the Government’s plans for national superannuation and health services are being prepared for presentation to the special Parliamentary Committee set up to investigate the whole question, and these will be placed before the committee almost immediately after it meets on Tuesday next. It is understood that a definite announcement of the proposals of the Government will be made by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) to-night. Mr Savage indicated yesterday that the outline of the plans would belengthy, and that there would be plenty of detailed material in the report for the committee to examine. What the Prime Minister will make public before the committee meets is a brief precis of the major essentials of the Government’s proposals, and to this end the special sub-committee of experts has drafted a suitable outline.

The first business of the committee, which will meet at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, will be to elect its chairman. The personnel of the committee is:—Mr Savage, the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash), Mr H. Atmore (Independent), Mr D. Barnes (Government), Hon. J. G. Cobbe (National), Mr S. G. Holland (National), Mr H. S. S. Kyle (National), Rev. A. H. Nordmeyer (Government), Mr J. O'Brien (Government), Mr A. S. Richards (Government), and Mr J. Robertson (Government).