FRIENDLY SOCIETIES COUNCIL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9621, 29 March 1917, Page 5

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES COUNCIL

DEPUTATION TO MR HAN AN. Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 28. A deputation from tho Friendly Societies Council asked Mr Hanan that the maternity allowance be increased from £4 to £6, as in the National Provident Fund; also that n further conference be held between the societies and the Government with regard to the management, of the former’s affairs. Air Myers said the raising of tho bonus would involve a considerable sum. Ho would have to go into tho matter to form, an idea of the amount required. : ! Tho deputation also suggested that after the war the Government should take up tho matter of providing medical attention for tho whole community. The Government should train up medical men from the public schools, and eventually pay them for their ser-

vices. Tho Minister said ho favoured the encouragement of boys with the right ability to enter jHe. .profession, and a great deal had been done in that direction already. Ho would convey the representations to the Minister for Public Health. Mr Hanan also promised to look into the matters of extending the concessions of the use of the Rotorua and Hnnmer Sanatoriums to the wives of friendly society members; of the reinsurance of soldiers who retui ned to the Dominion and died hero and not on active service ; , and of the granting of facilities to societies to operate on Post Office Savings Bank accounts by cheques. ______