NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND
oThe Minister in Charge of the $atianal •Provident Fund, the Hon. Arthur M. Myers, in the course 6f ti statement telative to the fund's business, stated that ic wns proposed, that Jlie conditions as .regards the-staff and wiw difhculties were improving, to enlarge the organisation work of the scheme throughout tho Dominion, and already a start had been nmde in establishing fresh centres of activity. Tho growth of the membership, now about 15,000, and the nature of tliff benefits being actually paid, mdicated'tlie desirability of encouraging and-promot-ing in every way provision for tno contmL'crcies met by tliis scheme. The f;ucsr tion of legislating to extend the (-.coper and influence of tno fund ou a wider and more, comprehensive basis'must now receive consideration with a view to leudering the measure more generally, applicable to the whole community of workers. A'special feature of the scheme is tho method of retaining membership where, it is likely to lapse. In very many instances the support given by the Derailment's officers to lapsing contributors ha, resulted not only m the retention o membership, but in the accrueiuent o valuablo and important benefits uh 'l otherwise would not have come to Itbeneficiaries. In fact, it can be saidtl.a > the principal test as to the operation of a. national voluntary schcnit lien in the organising activity shown m retaining the membership as much as m the addition of new oontiilnitors. In this connection the Mmistei stated ho had arranged for the Department to lake special steps to deal with the memboiship of soldier contributors now returning from the front. .Wlnlo these men have been away the Government has remitted olie-balf their contributions, and on their return special means, operating from the time they leave l.uropc, are adopted to enable them to re-establuli their membership on a civil basis. r The Minister said that tho branch of the fund's operations relating particularly to superannuation for employees pf local authorities is now well developed ~in most of the principal centres of the Dominion, such as llawke's Hay, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago.. The Department, has furnished the Auckland bodies with pieliminary information regarding these proposals, and. lie had no doubt the superiinmiatiop interests of the municipal-em-ployees i» this part of the country would receive the consideration accorded io similar bodies elsewhere. Tho work ot establishing these superannuation schemes , for local authority stall's has been so successful'mid productive of so much improvement in the lives and prospects ot the employees that if has been decided to prepare tables .of benefits for the use of companies, firms, etc., who inav desire to link their employees up with the fond on similar'lines.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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442NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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