MANCHESTER UNITY.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES’ WORK. LONDON, May 2. Speaking at an Oddfellows’ dinner at Woolwich. Sir Joseph Cook said he had been an Oddfellow for forty years. The Manchester Unity, he said, had 110,000 members in Australia, compared with 725,000 in Great Britain, therefore the proportioi to the population was stronger in Australia, where the membership of all friendly societies totalled half a million, thus influencing a third of the population. Tho mother lodges in Britain should be proud of their lusty, wealthy offspring. The Dominion friendly societies had been the pioneers of much legislation insuring against tho vicissitudes of life. Parliaments merely crystallised the ideas which the societies had applied for more than a century.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 11
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116MANCHESTER UNITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 11
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