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PENSIONS FOR ALL OVER 60
How N.Z. Scheme Will Be Financed-
Wellington, Sept. 6.
THE New Zealand Labour Government's Social
one child under 10, 10 £4 105, for widows with large families.
Security Bill, which has just passed its second read- ing provides for wide pensions and health insurance,ceive from £1 a week to £3 105. including:-
Pensions of 30s, a week for all qualified persons over 60.
.--" Up to £4 -10s. a week for widows with large familles. Sickness and unemployment benefits up to £1 n week for married man with nine or more children.
Gradual introduction of universal superannuation. Complete general practitioner service in case of sickness, including maternity attention in hospital for 14 days.
Orphans will get 153. a week, Fully qualified Invallis will re-
(and miners' benefits will range up
to £4 10s.
Weekly lekness benefits for fully qunlined persons will range up to £4 10s. for man and wife with nine or more children, the amounts to be adjusted according to other income.
All sick persons receiving...alek benefit from a friendly: society may also receive full benefit from the Social Security Fund, provided the
total income does not exceed £5 a
week.
UNEMPLOYMENT, HEALTH Unemployment benefits will be:
The scheme will be financed by a charge of 1s in the £ on all wages, salaries and other income, and a registra- tion fee of 58 a year for women and persons under 21 and 58 a quarter for others. The Finance Minister expressed confidence in the productive capacity of the country to 1; married men, with no children
meet the costs arising from the proposals.
levels.
Under 20, with no dependants, 10s.
a week; over 20, with no dependants.
£1 15s; one child, £2; and 6s. ex- tra for each additonal child under the age of 10, to a maximum of £4
All social security contribu- come higher than tions are to be paid into special Social security fund.
Persons over 60 may receive, they say it must
and superannuation are desirable, entitled to these benefits if he has with their own income included, blished that the income necessary to/lived in New Zealand for 12 months.
previous. record 10s.
Every person over 10, who is cap- Admiting that health insurance able and willing to work, will bo
be clearly cata-
£2 10s a week, maximum for married couples with own in- come, being £4 a week.
No deduction will be made for furniture, personal effects, or house used as home.
Is In 11 ON-INCOME
The social security contribution will consist: (0) Registration fee;] and (b) a charge on salaries, wages and other income of every person over 18 years.
Exemption
will be allowed only where payment would be a hardship. The registration fee will be 65. year, payable by all women and all persons under 21, and 58, a quarter) for all others.
OPPOSITION DOUBTS
The charge on salaries, wages and other income will be is.' in the £1. Pointing to a fail of £6,000,000 In the country's wool cheque, the Op "position members of a committee which investigated the new social security proposals warn the Govern ment against budgeting for expendi-
The National Health section of the
support such expenditure is well within the taxable capacity of the bill provides for complete general people; also that the national Income practitioner service for all, similar to that under the British scheme; will increasing costs.
rise sumciently to curry the that is, services other than those Involving the application of special skill and experience.
They complain of the Govern- ment's refusal to disclose how it will finance the schemes, which will cost almost £18,000,000, or £12 a head of population in the first year.
Doubt is cast on the assumption that New Zealand's income will in- crease from its present record level of £150,000,000 to £210.000,000 in 10 years.
A special section of the Act pro-
vides for gradual introduction of universal superannuation.
MATERNITY ATTENTION'
A special section provides for ma- ternity attention in hospital for 14 to the days, with extra payment doctor.
Medical, pharmaceutical and h05- pital benefis will be allowed under the scheme.
From April 1, 1030, every regis- tered doctor in New Zealand will be entitled to provide medical benefits It is proposed as from April 1,
to comply with if he is prepared 1940, this sum to be increased by conditions. Any doctor may with-
from the scheme drow £2 10s. each year until the super-
by giving ruw annuation reaches £78, and super-three months' notice. sedes the present proposed old age
The patient will have the right to select his
chemist doctor. Every benefits.
will be entitled to supply patients.
If the patient desires treatment in a private hospital, the Social Security Fund will pay towards his expenses the same amount as would be paid if the patient were in a public hospital.
The only qualification will involve residence and payment of contribu-
tlona.
WIDOWS' BENEFITS Widows' benefits will range from ture on social services requiring In-¡ £1 15. a week for a widow with
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
R.A.F. PLANE WRECKS A HOUSE
Two civilians were killed and n house wan set on fire recently in R.A.F. nccidents.
A woman lost her life when a. machine wrecked a house in Stam- ford, Lines, after a mid-air colli- Flon; and
A man was killed when a sen- plane struck a bont from which he was fishing in the Solent.
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The three occupants of the planes which collided at Stamford-both
No, machines from R.A.F. Fighter Squadron, Wittering, near Peterborough, Northants-all caped by parachute.
Splinters were scattered over the centre of the town and many pedes- Irlans were struck.
PETROL EXPLODES
One of the falling 'planes hit a house in Lancaster-road, Stamford. As it struck, the petrol tank exploded and the house was soon a mass of flamey.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell, the occu- pants, escaped, but their only daugh- ter. Miss Agnes Mary Russell, 22, was caught by the faling wreckage as she was leaving her home.
Her body was not recovered until the flames had been subdued. It was then found that she had been killed by a metal spar.
At one time there was a danger other of the dames reaching the three houses in the block.
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The fire brigade prevented this, although furniture was taken out of the second house as a precaution.
The second plane crashed in the gordens of seven cottages in Free-
at the other side of man's Meadows, the town. Two men were in this machine-Flying Omeer J. E. J. Sing, who landed in the River Wel- land, and Alecraftman R. Hum- phreys, who came down in a tree near by.
PLANE SINKS IN SEA In the Solent accident Shark seaplane attached to the RAF. station at Lee strucks and sunk a boat from which two men were fishing.
The man killed Was Thomas Henry Kemp, 48, of Adelaide- grove.
Enst Cowes. His stepfather. Thomas Banister, 75, of the same address, received head injuries and was taken to hospital at Gosport.
The occupants of the 'plane, Pilot Sgt. Clifford Bond and a naval of- ficer who was under flying instruc- tion-were unhurt.
Their plane, which sank after the accident, was salved.
an On Scpt. 4 R.A.F. training 'plane struck and set fire to two houses in Dunholme-road, Edmon- ton, N., 12 people losing their lives.
Can't Eat This-Can't Eat That
"EELS? EELS NO THANK
YOU!...I'VE SEEN THE SNAKES IN THE ZOO! THAT'S ENOUGH!
#1938.
OLYMPIC GAMER BERLİN 1030
SOME CAN'T EAT LIVERS.
KIDNEYS, BRAINS OR GIZZARDS... NURSES, WE NOTICE. AVOID THESE
DELICACIES
OTHERS WONT EAT OYSTERS
THEY KNOW THEYRE
ALIVE AND THEY SAY
THEY FEEL THE WIGGLING
ALL THE WAY DOWN,
NORMAN LYND.
SOME CAN'T EAT MEAT, SOME CAN'T EAT
MILK AND CRACKERS THEIR SYSTEMS NEED THICK
STEAKS -RARE
AND JUICY
TO US, ONIONS ARE THE SWEETEST FLOWER THAT GROWS" ---BUT WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE HAVE TO
LEAVE THEM ALONE
MAYBE
IT'S
YOUR GLANDS?
Perfect Control
(BAYER)
‘AASPIRIN'
Bayer Means Bot
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
By J. NORMAN LYND
CAN'T EAT BREAD, POTATOES, STARCHES, PUDDINGS, ICE CREAM CHOCOLATES
AT LEAST THATS WHAT THE DOCTOR SAVS
WE KNOW OF ONE PERSON -ONLY ONE WHO CAN'T. EAT KIPPERED HERRING
CAN'T STAND THE STENCH SHE SAYS. WELL, THAT LEAVES MORE FOR US.