SOCIAL SERVICES
NEW ZEALAND & BRITISH CONDITIONS. Bj’ Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, December 5. Mr Tom Smith (Labour), in the House of Commons urged the Government to model its old age assistance on the Australian and Now Zealand schemes. Mr A. Jenkins (Labour) paid a tribute to New Zealand's old age pen; sions, which were approximately 100 per cent higher than Britain's. Mr Somerville (Conservative) asked if that were not due to financial help from Britain and the fact that standard prices were given to New Zealand farmers, the results of competition with Britain, for which reason Britain was unable to provide better social services. Mr Jenkins said the Labour Government established, new rates and did not adopt the Tory policy of reducing everything after 1931. Consequently New' Zealand was infinitely better off.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 7
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132SOCIAL SERVICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 7
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