NATIONAL INSURANCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1141, 31 May 1911, Page 7

NATIONAL INSURANCE.

BILL READ A SECOND TIME. EXTENSION ADVOCATED. Py Toleirraph—Press Association-Copynirnl (Rec. May 30, 11.25 p.m.) London, May .30. The National Insurance Bill was rend a second .time in the House of Commons after the application of the closure. Mr. Ramsay MacDonnld, Leader of the Labour party, advocated that instead of the worker paying fourpenco a week premium, the State, the employer, and the worker should each pay threepence. Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Unionist) said -he believed that with the schemo in operation the voluntary contributions to the hospitals would decrease. He suggested that provision should be made for dentistry, and also that married women should receive deferred payments for tho first ten years of their married life when expenses were highest. Mr. Lloyd-George, in replying to Mr. Mac Donald's proposal, said tho cost would be an extra three millions. He warned the House of Commons against the danger of increasing tho national liabilities. He did not think the working classes fully realised tho magnitude of the Bill. Many of the doctors' criticisms were based on ignorance, PRINTING TRADE AWARD. 1 ■— . TOWN AND COUNTRY RATES. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrleht (Rec. May 30, 11.25 p.m.) Sydney, May 30. The Wages Board has granted the country printing trade an award allowing apprentices and journeymen to operate type-setting machines.at wages lower than those ruling in the city. The award is likely to have a serious ; effect in the printing trade.