SOLDIERS' INSURANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 21 June 1917, Page 6

SOLDIERS' INSURANCE.

• WARNING TO CANVASSERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Minister for Defence, Sir James Allen, in referring to the work of the Financial Assistance Board, said it had come to the knowledge of the board and himself as Minister that certain insurance companies, or their canvassers, possibly unknown to the management, were leading applicants to believe that insurance premiums would be paid by the Government regardless of circumstances. They were using this to induce men to tnke uj) insurance for larger amounts, involving premiums which the men would not be able to meet out of their ordinary income if not taken as soldiers. He wished to warn first of all the insurance companies and their canvassers against this practice, and also those who might be misled, that the Government could not recognise liability in cases where it was obvious that the men had been led to take up larger insurance policies than they wore justified in doing in their ordinary life. There were already some cases in which the board had j to decline to give assistance, and it had been the cans.-, of great hardship for porno men. The practice had to be stopped.