NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 218, 2 June 1915, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

ORGANISING LABOR.

TO ASSIST HARVESTING.

F?EW PLYMOUTH, Juno 1.

A public meeting last nigbt set up a committee to organise town labor, so as to assist farmers at harvest time, with a view to encouraging increased growth of cereals. A hope was expressed that simiar movements would be made in other pans of the Dominion. the moderate league. SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES TO BE ASKED FOE. AUCKLAND, June 1. At a meeting of the Executive of the Auckland Branch of the Moderate League, the secretary (Mr Armstrong) reported progress from the Central Executive, Wellington. The League intended to ask that regulations be made restricting the sale of liquor for consumption off premises to special bottle departments in each hotel, such departments to cose earlier than the eludes the establishment of a special Government Department to supervise the whole trade and the reconstitution of local licensing authorities, with fuller powers of investigation.

NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND.

WELLINGTON, June 1

The Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister in charge of the National Provident 'Fund states that the membership continues to show a substantial increase. The enrolments to date have now reached 10 000. This number, which is of course not the actual present membership nevertheless indicates very plainly the excellent results obtained through the present policy of lecturing and encouraging the workers to join. The amount to .the credit of the fund is aproaching £60,000 while during the twelve months to Dec. 31st last, maternity benefits amounting to £1644 were paid to contributors. The Minister points out that the successful establishment of the fund and the steady increasing membership are, from a thrifty point of view, very saistfactory indeed, particularly as the scheme is on a voluntary basis and is still in the most difficult stage of its exsten.ee. vix the first five years waiting period, at the end of which, important bono-j fts such as for incapacity, widows and! children commence to be claimable. There can be no doubt that the fund is going to prove a factor in solving the problem of social insurance in New Zealand.