IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 8 May 1911, Page 8

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

INVALIDITY AND UNEMLOYMENT . BILL. | MR LLOYD GEORGE INTERVIEWED. 1Y CABLE—PBBSB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received May 8, 12 noon.) ; LONDON, May 7. Mr Lloyd George, in an interview, said that 30 per cent, of the pauperism was due to sickness, hence if patients could be prevented from becoming chronic invalids, and rescued from the grip of the poor law, the present cost of pauperism would be largely diverted and more effectively utilised. The Bill would affect 270,000 domestic in London, whereof 250,000 were females. Women workers^ who marry insured men, would be allowed to rejoin upon widowhood, even if over the age of 55. Men who rise above 60s per week would be allowed to remain members if they pay the employers' threepence in addition to their own fourpence weekly. Harland and Wolff's officials state that the scheme will cost their firm £12,500 annually, and that wages must therefore be reduced or prices increased. The Spectator fears that malingering, both as regards sickness and unemployment, is likely to be stimulated.