NATIONAL INSURANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10401, 15 July 1912, Page 5

NATIONAL INSURANCE.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [July 15, 9 a.m. London, July 14, A me-lo suffragist Mr Lloyd George ae he was entering a meeting at Kensington “Theatre, to which admittance was by ticket only. Other male suffragists were ejected for causing infc6rrnpbicns. Mr Lloyd George in his epsech, said he did not claim' that tue Insurance Act wonld bring the milleuium, but it brought it nearer. To-morrow would be known in the annals of tbs sick and distressed as “Bed Cross Day. ” Already 9>£ millions of new members had joined approved societies, and mare new 'members had joined tho Friendly Societies ia the past three weeks than in the whole of the past twenty years. Government would fulfil every pledge. Newspapers announce that similar meetings projected by the Liberal Insurance Committee throughout tho country to celebrate the enforcement of the Act were largely abandoned owing to tiie outcry against the measure and opposition newspapers ridiculing the so-called “Joy Day.”