FRIENDLY SOCIETY PAYMENTS
A PETITION TO PARLIAMENT.
A petition from the Friendly Societies of New Zealand asking that payments made to returned incapacitated soldiers by the societies should not bo assessed as income was presented to Parliament yesterday. The petition urged that the Friendly Societies had since their establishment in New Zealand in 1842 rendered valuable service to the State in the alleviation of sickness and distress, the promotion of thrift, the prevention of unemployment, and the amelioration of the condition of the working classes generally. The societies of New Zealand were paying annually in sick pay, medicine, and hospital benefits, and funeral allowances a sum exceeding £242,757. Members received no remuneration for their services. It was realised that soldier members of societies would prove an additional burden upon the societies' funds, and in view of the fact that repeated complaints had been received from incapacitated soldier members that when in receipt of an economic pension, granted for war disabilities, the amount received from the societies was deducted from the economic pension, it was asked that in future payments by societies should not be regarded as income.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1926, Page 11
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187FRIENDLY SOCIETY PAYMENTS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1926, Page 11
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