NATIONAL INSURANCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 3, 25 October 1924, Page 6

NATIONAL INSURANCE

DEATH KNELL TO FRIENDLY societies;

■„ y**** Sydney, October 1&. “National insurance . wUl< ftheHhe death knell to friendly societies, if brought into being as the Federal Government, .proposes,” grand secretary: of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society, at the

grand council' ySfeterthiy,*'' The mutter arose out of a discussion concerning tire’s report, \rhic>)i to

the session.-.'’This report said that national insurance would bo, if brought into operation, of consider-

able importance to friendly societies.

“As you are' aware,” the. report says, “a coromissionfiojl 'si£ld 1 sittings in all.,the States, and was very solicitous;to make- inquirt'-dhoin flj-fenefiy :repv€sfe)t)i,tiAl^ r^ . garding the work done by snective bodies. It was >.expected that the practice as operating iu England would also operate in the Commonwealth; that was. to appoint accepted friendly societies as the main agencies for the fund. “But from' later information, if is suggested that! this will not be the case., and that local (agencies will be entirely apart from friendly societies.' It is would increase the cost of adniinlstra-

tration, and 1 we fear would‘ to an extent detract from , the .splendid y voluntary' wori of-friendly sgaietws,; 'which, has resulted ih»luchs(e benefit to the community in The grand t 4<ft any Act that was' brought ij\ ,by r tjje Federal Government should 'take infro consideration tlie voluntary work which had been by . piembers of friendly societies.