NATIONAL INSURANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10780, 31 May 1911, Page 4

NATIONAL INSURANCE.

BILL IN THE COMMONS

[By Eleotkio Telegraph-—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.) London, May 30. In .the Housi'. of Commons the National Insurance Hill was read a. second time after the application of- the closUr Mr Ramsay Macdonald advocated that instead of a worker paying fourpence, tlie State, the employer, and Uic worker each pay threepence. Mr Chamberlain believed voluntary contributions to .the hospitals would decrease. He suggested a provision for married women receiving deterred payments for the first ten years of married life, when the expenses would bo highest. . . . Mr Lloyd-George, replying to Mi Macdonald's proposal, said it would cost an extra three millions, and warned the House of Commons of the danger of increasing the national liabilities. He did not think the working classes fully realised the magnitude of the Bill.' Many of the doctors' criticisms were based on ignorance.