QUESTIONS BY MR. HULTQUIST.

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 2

QUESTIONS BY MR. HULTQUIST.

IMPC KTANT POJ NTS RAISED Included in questions tabled by members of the House of Representatives were the following by Air. A. G. Hultquist.- member for the Bay of Plenty:— , To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Whether, in. view of the fact that much land in the country is deteriorating at a rapidly-accelerating rate, mainly owing to lack of proper quantities of manure, he will fully investigate the ‘possibility of instituting a flat freight-paid price for the purpose of making superphosphate, lime, and other top-dressing available to settlors in the mere isolated areas at a much-re-duced price? (Note. —Laud in the Alatakaoa County is deteriorating anti needs manure, yet it costs £2 10s a ton freight oil manure from Auckland to the Hicks .Bay Wharf. Freight charges from the wharf, too, must necessarily lie high in addition, as petrol costs 2s lid and 3s per gallon at the Port of Hicks Bay..) To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Whether he will arrange for the complete itinerary of the Sheep Industry Commission .to be published at an early date, and whether he will include in the itinerary arrangements for the Commission to v(sit the East Coast north of Gisborne and the' inland country between Gisborne and Opotikij* (Note. —One-fourteenth of all the sheep in New Zealand are in, the Bay of Plenty Electorate and one-seventh of the sheep in the North Island.) To. ask the Minister of Social Security, Whether lie will this session make prevision by way of amendment to the Social Security Act with the object of making it possible for a- daughter of an elderly or incapacitated person to receive a payment out of the Social Security Fund in these cases where the daughter must remain at home in attendance on her parent? (Note. —I have a number of cases in mind, but

one particular example is that of a mother who is conipletely’ paralysed. Her daughter has devoted her entire time for a number of years to tlie care of her mother. The mother receives an invalidity pension, and has to keep both herself and daughter thereout. The daughter was refused •an unemployment benefit and has no income. It would cost the State at least £2 2s per week to keep the mother in hospital. I suggest it would not lie too much to asli the Government to make it possible for the daughter to receive £1 per week for earing for her mother at home.)