BENEFITS & COSTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 7

BENEFITS & COSTS

DEBATE ON THE SECURITY SCHEME MR HAMILTON’S CONTENTIONS PROPOSALS DEFENDED BY MR NORDMEYER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Discussion on the Government’s social security proposals was continued in the House of Representatives yesterday. The debate was resumed by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Adam Hamilton, whose remarks had been interrupted by the adjournment on the previous night. After referring to the various classes' of people exempt from the payment of employment taxation who would now be liable for the social security tax, Mr Hamilton said the fundamental principle of superannuation was that it should be divorced from other schemes. The Opposition contended that the proposals should not be proceeded with until it had been clearly established that the income necessary to support the expenditure involved was well within the taxable capacity of the people. Mr Hamilton was followed by the' Rev A. H. Nordmeyer (Government, Oamaru), who was chairman of the special Parliamentary • committee which examined the Government's original superannuation and health service proposals. He said there were thousands of people who would have to bear extra taxation, but who would be proud to do so in order to assist those who were not so fortunate as themselves. It was, he said, a gross misrepresentation to say that the Government’s objective was the socialisation, of the medical profession. /•.

The House adjourned at 10.30 p.m. until today. The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, will take part in the debate tonight.