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POSITION OF SUPERANNUATION FUND. REFERENCES IN HOUSE TODAY. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The House of Representatives met at 10.30 a.m. and went into Committee of Supply for consideration of the estir mates. Discussing the Public Service Superannuation Fund Account vote of £9,440, the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon A. Hamilton) asked if the fund were financial or not. The Minister of Finance (the Hon W. Nash): “It is not actuarily financial, but the Government is behind it.” The Rt Hon J. G. Coates asked if it were the intention of the Government to preserve the fund. He believed it was the wish of members of the Public Service that the fund should be preserved. The Minister, in reply, said there was no suggestion that this fund or other Government superannuation funds, would be removed. The vote was passed. FIELD EXPERIMENTAL WORK. Answering a question as to the department of Agriculture’s field experimental work, the Minister (the Hon W. Lee Martin) said the Department had not lost sight of the importance of this work. In fact it was spending thousands of pounds on it every year. The debate on the Agricultural Department’s vote was interrupted by the adjournment at 1. p.m.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 6
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