National Health Scheme
HELP OF THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Friendly Societies had nothing to fear from the Government’s policy respecting national health and superannuation, said Hon. W. Leo Martin at the biennial conference of the North Island Grand Lodgo of Druids to-day. No Government could afford to neglect the wealth of information available as a result of tho activities of friendly societies. He added that, when the schemes were a little further advanced, he would have an opportunity of discussing them with the societies’ representatives. He knew their co-operation would be offered the Government, which was seeking by legisation to do what had been in the minds of friendly societies all along, to remove the spectre of poverty and distress. The invalidity pension had given the societies some relief, but this went only a portion of the way it was proposed to traverse^
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 64, 17 March 1937, Page 5
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148National Health Scheme Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 64, 17 March 1937, Page 5
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