SOCIAL SECURITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1939, Page 9

SOCIAL SECURITY

ORGANISING THE NEW DEPARTMENT.

APPOINTMENT OF SENIOR OFFICERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The organisation required for the administration of the Government’s social security scheme to come into operation on April 1 is now taking shape. A special department is to be established to administer the scheme, and an important phase of the preparatory work involved has been the selection of the necessary, staff. Several of the senior appointments in this department were officially announced yesterday. The personnel of the Social Security Commission and the names of the two principal executive officers under the commission were given out in December. Mr B. F. Waters, at present Assistant Commissioner of Pensions, has been appointed Assistant Director of the Superannuation Branch, head office, Social Security Department.

Mr H. L. Bockett, accountant 'to the Labour Department, has been appointed Assistant Director of the Unemployment and Sickness Benefit Branches. Mr G. O. Hall, accountant to the Justice Department, is to be the accountant, and the office of chief inspector in the new department has been filled by the appointment of Mr P. Marshall, at present chief clerk in the Employment Division, Labour Department. The following have been appointed district registrars for the department in the four main cities: —

Auckland: Mr C. Dunn, Registrar of Pensions, Auckland.

Wellington: Mr. A. T. Grandison, District Employment Officer, Auckland. Christchurch: Mr A. H. Parfitt, Registrar of Pensions, Christchurch,

Dunedin: Mr E. A, Selman, District Employment Officer, Wellington. On the employment promotion and placement side Mr A. J. Ridler will be the Controller, and Mr J. V. Brennan will be chief clerk, head office. District Employment Officers have been appointed as follows: —Auckland. Mr T. G. Feilder, Wellington, Mr C. Brennan; Christchurch, Mr H. L. R, Read; Dunedin, Mi' E. C. J. Foote. As already announced, Mr. J. H. Boyes, Joint Public Service Commissioner, has been appointed chairman of the Social Security Commission, and Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, a member of the commission. The Social Security Act provides for a commission of not more than three commissioners, but so far only two have been appointed. The principal executive officers under the commission will be Mr J. S: Hunter, Secretary for Labour, and Mr H. Digby Smith, Commissioner of Pensions.