SECURITY BILL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 4

SECURITY BILL

AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CRITICISM OF FINANCIAL BASIS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Good progress was made with the Committe stage of the Social Security Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday. Discussion on the short title, which commenced the previous evening occupied most of the afternoon, but after it had been agreed to a number of clauses were passed without comment. Shortly before 10 p.m. the House had approved 32 of the 139 clauses in the Bill. Progress was then reported to permit the introduction by Govern-er-General’s Message of a supplementary order paper containing a large number of amendments. The House adjourned at 10 p.m. until today. Information concerning the effect of a number of the clauses in the Bill was sought by members of the Opposition from the Minister of Finance, the Hon W. Nash. Replying to the Hon Sir Alfred Ransom (Opposition, Pahiatua) he said that pocket-money or an allowance given to a daughter by her parents in return for work she did in their home would not be liable for the social security tax. Lack of information concerning the method of financing the Government’s national health and superannuation proposals was a subject of complaint by the Rt Hon J. G. Coates (Opposition, Kaipara). It was the duty of the Minister of Finance, he said, to satisfy the Opposition as to the stability of the financial foundations on which tne scheme must rest. So far he had not satisfied anyone on that point. Consideration of the estimates of departmental expenditure will be resumed today.