11 MAY 1912, Page 15

THE INSURANCE ACT.

[To THE EDITOR OF TIER "SPROT&TOR.1 SIR,--I have just received notice that the " Tariff " insurance companies are raising their premiums, in this business at all events, 300 per cent. If Mr. Lloyd George's estimates of the cost of the Workmen's Insurance Act prove as fallacious as his figures as to the cost of the Old-Age Pensions Act what is to prevent a weak Government, coerced by a strong coalition, from raising the employer's contribution under this Act in a similar way when hard facts prove the necessity of further contributions from somebody 1)-1 am, Sir, &c..,