FREE INSURANCE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21506, 22 June 1935, Page 14

FREE INSURANCE

"The Press" Scheme Outlined

CASH BENEFITS

POLICIES FOR READERS

OF THE PAPER

The free insurance scheme for readers of "The Press," to come into operation at the end of this month, provides substantial coverage in many cases of accidents, with payments amounting to as much as £2OOO in respect of one person. "The Press" has been successful in making arrangements with, the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, Ltd., to undertake the cover, and all regular subscribers to the paper, old and new, will be entitled to register, without any further obligation, as participants in a scheme which is as liberal and wide in application as any other in operation in this country. Full details of the scheme are published elsewhere in this issue, and readers and intending readers are advised to register through the form provided.

! Some of the most outstanding benefits for readers who may be involved in accidents are as follows: £2OOO for death by accident to a railway passenger train. £IOO9 for death by the wrecking of any passenger steamer of an established line of steamers between ports in New Zealand. £250 if the accident involves a steam, electric, cable, or horse tramway car or an omnibus, cab, motorcar, or ferry-boat (in every case plying for public hire and driven by a licensed driver). £250, moreover, will be paid to readers involved in any of the above accidents who lose both arms, or both legs, or an arm and a leg, or lose irrevocably the sight of both eyes. £IOO for the loss by such accident of one arm or one leg, or the sight of one eye. £l5O if the reader is killed by being struck or run over while walking or standing in or on a public highway by any public or private vehicle. Many Forms of Benefit There arc many other forms of benefit, all of which are outlined (with conditions) in to-day's issue, but most of which it is impossible to summarise here. For instance, there is provision fur the payment of £2 a week, for a period not exceeding three weeks, in the event of the stipulated accidents resulting in temporary total disablement from injuries unspecified. This clause is a particularly wide one. There is also provision for compensation in the case of home accidents, amounting to sums up to £l5O, and for children's accidents. In the latter instance £5 will be paid to the registered parent in the event of an accident to his or her child over the age of six and under the age of 17 years, causing broken arm above the wrist or broken leg above the ankle. This provision is subject to certain conditions outlined in to-day's advertisement. In all, there are 21 forms of benefit under the scheme. Conditions of Payment

The London and Lancashire Insurance Company, Ltd., through its local office, Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., will, subject to the stipulated conditions, pay to the legal personal representative of any person killed, or to any person injured, the sums promised: provided (1) that at the time of the accident the person so killed or injured is a duly registered reader of "The Press"; (.2) that in the event of the accident being to any of the conveyances specified in benefits I, 2, and 3 above, he was travelling as a farepaying passenger in the place regularly provided for the sole use of passengers; and (3) that notice of claim be sent to the registered office of the company's agents within seven days of the accident. This insurance applies only throughout New Zealand, and registration shall hold good during such continuous period as the reader receives the newspaper under the subscription or order provided, including any days during such period on which the newspaper is not issued, but not beyond midnight on June 30, 1936. The conditions governing "The Press" free accident insurance are outlined in full.in the advertisement appearing to-day.

' Progressivcncss of "The Press'" This comprehensive scheme is merely another feature of the progressive policy of "The Press," a newspaper which has always tried to give its readers the fullest possible service in every way. "The Press" serves a very large number of people in other South Island provinces as well as in Canterbury, and throughout its history its growing circulation has been based on service. It provides a fuller news cov erage than any other newspaper in the South Island, its special features and up-to-date presentation of news are widely recognised, and its contents are suited in every way to the requirements of newspaper readers. Those who wish to register in the accident insurance scheme will find a form for the purpose contained in to-day's advertisement. The reader must give his full name and address, stating whether he is a subscriber at present, and, if not. whether he intends to order "The Press" as from July 1. Readers are invited to fill in the amplication form and to return it immediately so that they may get full cover from July 1 Claims should be forwarded immediately bv registered letter to the office of Messrs Pyne, Gould. Guinness, Ltd., who are agents and attorneys for the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, under thf! management of Mr M. J. Russell. . .. • . _