£100.000.000 A YEAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1926, Page 1

£100.000.000 A YEAR.

LONDON, Nov. -28. “It would ho a modest estimate to say that through inefficiency due to physical weakness we as a nation are losing not less than £-100,000.000 a year,” said Mr Philip Snowden, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late Socialist Government, speaking at a luncheon given yesterday by the Aldwych Club at the Connaught llooms. Great Queen-street, W.C., in honour ol the founders of the New Health Sociey of which Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, the surgeon, is the president. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who was also a guest, said that although the world, in these day’s, was so enmeshed in a network of societies, the Now Health Society could make out a justification for its birth. The society proposed, he explained, to disseminate knowledge of the simple laws of health, the causes of disease, and the safeguards against it—first by lectures and literature, and secondly by co-operation with health and school authorities, welfare centres, and ad forms of industrial associations. Lord Oxford continued: “So far as I am concerned, doctors and I have been on the most distant bowing acquaintance for more than <0 vears. And if I have been more successful than most of my fellow-creatures in evading their well-meant attention. I put down my good fortune to the grace of Providence and hot to the observance of any self-imposed regimen of life. Sir Charles Wakefield announced a personal donation to the funds of the society of £SOO.