THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1518, 25 October 1883, Page 2

THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT.

The adjourned meeting of delegates was held last evening at the Temperance Hall. A letter was read from Mr Buchanan, M.H.R. appointing Saturday evening at 7.30 to meet the delegates to discuss the Act with them. The following reasons why the Friendly Societies* Act should be repealed as it at present exists were unanimously adopted:— 1. Because the Act confers no benefit and entails much useless labor and expense. -\ 2. Because the action of the Government shows that it is desirous of supplanting the Societies with a scheme of its own, and has used the Act to obtain the necessary information from the Societies to enable them to do so.

3. Because the complete failure of the Government Industrial Insurance Branch shows the incompetence of Government Actuaries to deal with the principles upon which the operations of Friendly Societies are based, 4. Because the rules of the Societies and the common law of the country are quite adequate to meet all the matters provided for in the Act.

It was resolved that a copy of the foregoing be posted to every Court Lodge, and Tent in the colony, and that they be respectfully asked to give the same their careful consideration in connection with the Friendly Societies Act 1882, and communicate the result of their deliberations to the committee of delegates at Masterton.