2ND N.Z.E.F. ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
REMIT ON INSURANCE RATES “That the Government Insurance Department be asked to investigate on a basis of equity the penal rates of premium for insurance cover on children of ex-servicemen whose fathers developer communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis,” was a remit to the South Island conference of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association in Christchurch, which was discussed on Saturday. It was reasonable, said the Dominion president (Mr Kenneth H. Melvin) that the incidence of war-in-duced disease should not be permitted to dog the next generation seeking State insurance cover. The association held, as a fair extension of the war compensation principle, that the children of servicemen who contracted diseases attributable to service conditions should not have to pay penal rates of insurance. The conference decided to set up committees in all centres to co-ordin-ate evidence on the men’s claim for sustenance allowance for time spent in prison camps.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 3
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1512ND N.Z.E.F. ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 3
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