Captain CLAYasked what would be the position of hop-pickers and fruit-pickers who in the season are engaged with their families in these industries, under the National Insurance Bill, seeing that they are paid by piecework, and the children contribute towards their parents' earnings; will the employer be compelled to pay his share; and is he responsible that each of the employed pays his share, notwithstanding the difficulties of ascertaining the correct ages of those employed in this class of labour?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe employer would be required to contribute in these cases and to pay the employés' contributions, deducting the amounts paid from their wages as in other employments.