NATIONAL HEALTH.
Friendly Societies Assured. Press Association— Copyright. Wellington, March 16. Friendly Societies had nothing to fear from th? Government's poTicy respecting natlbnal health and superannuation, said Hon. W. Lee Martin at the biennial conference of the North island Grand Lodge of Druids to-day. No Government could afford to *rgtect the wealth of information available as the result of the activities of the friendly societies, he added. When the schemes were a little further advanced he would have the opportunity of discussing them with the societies' representatives. He knew their co-operation would be offered the Government, which was seeking by legislation to do what had been in the minds.’ of friendly societies si! -Ion”
remove the spectre of poverty and distress. The Invalidity pension had given the societies some relief but this went only a part of the way n was proposed to traverse.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 385, 17 March 1937, Page 5
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