NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH
(Received January 29, 2.35 p.m.)
LONDON, January 28.
The Air Force pilot, Mr. A. N. MacFarlane,' who landed by parachute from a crashing aeroplane in Lincolnshire but died after walking a few steps, came from Balclutha, New Zealand.
would cost the .Commonwealth £14 660,000 in 1938, £19,240,000 in 4947, and would rise to £30,110,000 in 1977. The system of Government grants proposed for the contributory scheme had been designed so that, after the first five years, the Commonwealth should not be called on under the scheme to undertake a heavier financial liability than the amount by which the cost of the present' non-contributory schemes would be increased if no contributory scheme was initiated.
The report recommended that the rates of benefit and the conditions governing the award of benefits should be clearly stated in the Act of Parliament governing the scheme, so that no fundamental changes could be made without amending legislation..
Sir Walter Kinnear said, that the institution of a comprehensive scheme such,as that suggested should, in time, effect a substantial diminution in the amount of money ordinarily expended by the State Governments on widows' pensions, child allowances, child endowment, and the relief of the sick, destitute, blind, and aged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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204NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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