FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE,
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. •' The Colonial Conference of United Friendly Societies of New Zealand opened to-day.” The president in his address said that 'thirty-seven delegates were present representing Orders, and six represented Councils. Eleven of the Orders represented had 45.000 members, and funds amounting to £BOO,OOO. They annually dispensed £73,000 in sick and funeral funds- and £42,000 for medical attendance and' medicine, The Conference was the most representative ever hold in the colony. Two important subjects for the Conference were the Amending Friendly Societies' Act and the matter of setting up a colonial federation. The Conference would have to consider the possibility of a uniform scale of contributions, of larger death payments than the law allowed and improved means of investing lodge funds by allowing lodges to send small balances to central bodies. The Government's scheme of national annuities should re reive attention from the Confeience. in order to see if it would clash with the work of the Societies. It was resolved that the voting be on a proportional basis.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1755, 22 May 1906, Page 2
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