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Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 9

The whole organisation of friendly societies requires a drastic overhaul, and to be brought up to dale, said a friendiv society officer to a ‘Star’ repot ter‘to-day. Forty years ago a disabled man received the same amount of sick pay he receives to-day, and the buying value of £1 is now something less than half. A man who has been disabled for six months has his sick pa" reduced by half or more, when, as a matter of human necessity, it should be doubled, for the need is greater as tho mouths go hy. Times have changed. An impressive ritual, illustrated with picturesque symbols, is very interesting, hut a sick man needs something more substantial those days, ontalraidv.'teda-slpgll xna Fish leather as a substitute for leather from bides is being used in the United States and Japan for army equipment and harness The leather, which is stated to lie as serviceable as hide leather is also cheaper. It i? made principally from the skins of sharks, porpoises, and dog fish. For 1927 the birth rate for England and Wales was 16,7 per thousand. The rate is 1.1 per thousand below that of 1926. The death rale, 12.3 per thousand, is 0.7 per thousand above that of 1926.