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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1922, Page 7

The representative of a well-known life insurance company was approached down the coast recently by a Maori. "You te insurance man?*' the native asked, and on receiving a reply in the affirmative, he said, "Well, no good you sending mc bills for my boy's insurance; mc no pay them. He been dead two, three years now, he has." "That so," said the insurance man. "Well in that case we owe you £500, I think." "What, mc get £500," said the Maori. "By gorry, that all right. When mc pet* it?" ""Well, you will have to give ub all the details as to when the boy died before we can settle the matter, of course," said the agent. The Maori had not understood that his son's life was insured, and no notification was given by him as to the death of his son, but matters are being fixed up now, it is understood* '.