STATE LIFE INSURANCE.
1 AN ITALIAN BILL. i By Teleerapli—Press Association—Copyrieht Rome, June 4. t A Government Bill has been' intros duced establishing a State monopoly in 1 life insurance. The main features of the Italian Ministry's programme were outlined on' the re-assembling of Parliament in April. They aro an Electoral Reform Bill, extending the franchise to all Italian citizens over 21 except those who, being under 30 years of age, have neither done military service nor can read or write; payment of Deputies; and pensions for old age or for those 'incapacitated otherwise from labour, the funds to be provided by a Government monopoly of all i insurance. [ Signor Giolitti, tho Prime Minister, laid i stress on the necessity of maintaining a surplus in public finance, and, as the ■ revenue cunld not b& increased, of resistL iiiK greater expenditure. The salaries of . public servants liad all been lately raisi ed, and it was now incumbent on tho Government to see if greater economy and greater.efficiency might not be achieved ' by a simplification of the Civil Servico '. system.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1146, 6 June 1911, Page 5
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178STATE LIFE INSURANCE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1146, 6 June 1911, Page 5
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