FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
NATIONAL INSURANCE EFFECT. NO DETRIMENT.
SYDNEY, This Day. Dr Earle Page, Federal Treasurer, was interviewed at Wingham in regard to compulsory insurance and its effect on existing friendly societies. The societies represented on the deputation were the Grand United Order of Oddfellows and the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows. In addition to those who actually spoke from a friendly standpoint, there were also present Messrs John T. Bird and John Anderson, both members of the Grand United Order.
Dr Poge expressed his appreciation of the value of the work of the friendly societies, and he thought they could rest assured that the Government, in whatever project it brought forward, would do nothing in the slightest degree inimical to friendly societies or their interests. What ( wag contemplated under the national insurance scheme was really to try to provide against the troubles and disadvantages that came with old age, with permanent invalidity, with sickness -and with accident. They were more or less consequential on industrial conditions, and the part dealt with by the friendly society Was only a small part. Then there was the question of unemployment. The big problems are not so much the problems that the friendly societies are dealing with —sickness, accident, and medical attention. The real problems were permanent invalilitv and its consequences.
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1925, Page 6
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