THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 26 January 1884, Page 2

THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT.

. (WoodvilTe Exiimiiicr.) •. , , ; A circular emanatiug from the delegates of the various. Lodges established in Maaterton has ten; issued to the ..officers of the.ivariou's.'Lodgo's = re-' ,questing their aßsistanqo, and-, cd-opem-tion in getting Act. repealed. Now anyonfe,'Jsho has had, anything itoVdo ■ :wp? Friendly Societies cannot, we thinfc,;'but agree; that the Friendly Sociefciea'-.Acfc ia one ,of, those brilliant Acts ofLegislation for. which our House of Representatives is rioted 1 for passing. The-lct itsolf consists of: innumerable clauses, from which,the Societies do not reap;the least benefit—whilo it involves useless anlunnecessary work upon- the .secretaries to the various Lodges. Our pxperience in the' matter?; ofr Friendly Societies'is that in . small lodges and courts the whole work and success, of carrying them on lite with the secretaries'; and:it matter; of hardship to these men who, after carrying on the business ofa Secretary for perhaps years, to the entire satisfac-. ; tion of its members, are' threatenedwith a prosecution at the hands of ! ifcho Government for „ not Send-, lug in perhaps a useleef; return; re* quired by the Act. ;