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Table 18—Social Security Benefits: Expenditure Outside New Zealand (Other than Under Reciprocal Agreements) for the Year Ended 31st March, 1950

EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS During the year over 950 displaced persons were brought to New Zealand from Europe, and from their arrival in Wellington on the 27th June, 1949, until the end of the week in which they were placed in employment they were assisted as required by way of emergency unemployment benefit through a temporary office of the Department located in the Displaced Persons Reception Centre at Pahiatua. Children received free board and lodgings in the camp, and therefore no benefit was paid until they left the camp, when emergency family benefits were granted. Single people aged sixteen to nineteen years received emergency unemployment benefit up to ss. a week, provided their weekly income from all sources, including board and lodging, did not exceed £2 ss. People aged twenty years and over received emergency unemployment benefit up to 10s. a week, provided their weekly income from all sources, including board and lodgings, did not exceed £3 ss. for single people and £5 10s. for married people. Free board in camp was calculated at £1 a week for people aged sixteen to nineteen years and £1 15s. a week for people twenty years and over. Between 27th June, 1949, and the closing of the camp on 11th November, 1949, 577 emergency unemployment benefits were granted, 134 of these including payment for a dependent wife. Expenditure on these benefits amounted to £2,986. On leaving the Reception Centre those who were unable to work and who were in need of assistance were granted emergency benefits according to their circumstances. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION From its inception the International Labour Organization has considered social security a main feature of its activities and in the last thirty years has adopted twenty-two conventions and eighteen recommendations on social security. The present programme of the Organization in the sphere of social security is directed towards the creation of a network of social security systems embodying the principles contained in the conventions and recommendations, the bringing up to date of the conventions and recommendations, and the extension of social security to undeveloped countries. At the invitation of the New Zealand Government, the first session of the Committee of Social Security Experts of the ILO met at Wellington from the Bth to 17th February, 1950. Although drawn from various countries, the officers attending the meeting did so not as Government representatives, but as experts in their own right. The meeting was attended by fifteen experts from America, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark,

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Details. Expenditure, 1.949-50, Paid through High Commissioner, London— Age-benefit Widow's benefit Family benefit Invalid's benefit Paid in Australia— Superannuation benefit Miner's benefit £ 794 21 13 242 1,070 4 176 180 Total £1,250