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SOCIAL SECURITY

APPOINTMENT OF MINISTER EXPECTED AT EARLY DATE. ADJUSTMENT OF DUTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 13. The appointment of a Minister of Social Security is likely to be announced any day now, and it is generally expected that the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, will be selected to administer this portfolio. This will probably involve several adjustments in the allocation of portfolios, but it is understood that there will be no change in the personnel of the Ministry. The members of the Social Security Commission are likely to be made known at the same time.

The Minister of Social Security "will administer the monetary benefits embracing superannuation, pensions and other allowances provided for in lhe Social Security Act passed last session of Parliament. The medical, hospital and related benefits will be administered by the Minister of Health. The monetary benefits are to operate from April 1, but the operation of the health oenefits can be postponed till some later date if reasonable arrangements for the effective administration of these benefits cannot be completed by the beginning of April. The Ministry of Pensions, at present administered by Mr Parry, will disappear ,as from April, and the Minister of Labour, Mr Armstrong, will be absolved from responsibility for the administration of the Employment Promotion Fund.

The Act provides for the appointment of a Social Security Commission •’f not more than three commissioners, and they are to be the principal officers of the department. Those who nave been mentioned as likely to be appointed to the commission include the 'joint Public Service Commissioner, Mr J. H. Boyes, who was Commissioner of Pensions before his appointment to his present position; the Secretary of Labour, Mr J. S. Hunter; and the Commissioner of Pensions, Mr H. Digby Smith. 6

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 7

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SOCIAL SECURITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 7

SOCIAL SECURITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 7

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