Sons of Temperance Conference
At the annual session of the Sons of Temperance Friendly Society at Penrith yesterday, a net increase of 368 adult ordinary members was reported, making a total of 135,742.
In his presidential address, Mr E Bailey said his deepest concern was the continued decline in juvenile membership, which threatened a serious position in their adult membership in coming years. Referring to the Majority Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance, he said they had protested against the proposed abolition of insurance committees, the increase of benefits to married persons, and the pooling of surpluses. He described the proposals of the Government’s Economy Bill as vicious, and said that if its provisions became law any extension of benefits recommended by the Royal Commission could be wiped off the slate as impossible. It would mean a cost to the approved societies of £4,700,000 per annum. He could not describe it as other than sheer robbery to alter the basis of the State’s contribution to the cost of benefits by £2,800,000 per annum.
(The Times, 25 May 1926)
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Having previously been founded in the United States, the Order of the Sons of Temperance of Great Britain and Ireland was instituted in 1855. Thus for over a century and a half the Sons of Temperance, as a Friendly Society, has had an outstanding record of service in providing life insurance and savings schemes exclusively for teetotallers.
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