THE INSURANCE BILL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11684, 13 July 1912, Page 4

THE INSURANCE BILL.

[Br Electric Telegraph—Copyp.ioht.] (Per Press Association.) London, July 12. •: In: the; House of' Commons Mr Grant moved in order to call atteptijjirto the Government's inability to provide a' sanatorium benefit under the-Ip sura nee BilL . . Mr'Mastermau replied that the existing institutions were at the disposal c,f the insurance committees ior domiciliary "treatment, wliiah could commence forthwith.. „ / - Received-July. 13, at 9.20 a.m. London, July 12. - Already -10 i .million -insurancej-cards have been issued,i representing -70 per centuiq ;of the insurable people.. Tlie. .executive ~pf the Committee of the; National M*edie«l- JJiiion- meeting at Manchester unanimously "passed a resolution that furtlier , negotiations with the Government would he useless and should-cease forthwith. > . " Justice- Joyce lias, decided that the employment of. Nonconformist m i nisters or .probationers by a. conference or circuits did not constitute employment, within the meaning. -of the Insurance Act. Received: July 13; at.lo.o>a.m. London, July 12. ; -In : connection-with the Insurance. Act. I the Government has been turnished I with a report showing that the doctors' | earings at Darlington, Darwin, Dundee, | and St. Albans have been 4s 2d per head [of tlio population. ; -