87. Major HOPEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how a woman contributor is to ascertain, if the Insurance Commissioners are satisfied, that the New Zealand branches of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows and the Ancient Order of Foresters give corresponding rights to any of their members becoming resident in the United Kingdom as understood by Section 32 of the National Insurance Act; whether he will take steps to warn women contributors who are likely to emigrate to New Zealand that they should become deposit contributors until the Insurance Commissioners are satisfied that, as members of an approved society, their transfer values can be paid either to one of the branches of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows or the Ancient Order of Foresters, or to other similar society in New Zealand?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI am taking steps to ascertain what societies will be willing to adopt the arrangements contemplated by Section 32 of the National Insurance Act, and I will publish the result of the inquiry. I cannot agree that a woman contributor who is likely to emigrate would be well advised to leave a society to become a deposit contributor, for by doing so she would forfeit the right of a reserve value, and would cease to be insured except to the extent of her deposit during the time she remained in this country.