THE FIRE UNDERWRITERS CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 7 February 1899, Page 6

THE FIRE UNDERWRITERS CONFERENCE.

The Council of the Fire UnderAvriters' Association ot New Zealand — of which Mr. Frank Allen, General Manager of the Commercial Union Assurance Uompany, was President — has just closed its session. The folloAving companies Avere represented : — Alliance Assurance, represented by Mr. W. D. Meares ; Australian Alliance Assurance, Mr. A. E. Kernot; Commercial Union, Mr. F. Allen ; Farmers' Co-opera-tive of Christchurch, Mr. K. VV. BroAvn j Guardian, Messrs. W. F. Allan and J. W. Turnbull; Imperial, Mr.' W. M. Phillips ; Law Union and Crown, Mr. J. Holmes; Liverpool and London and Globe, Messrs. «J. Duncan (Levin and Co.) and F. H. Hall ; London and Lancashire, Mr. H. Walkley ; Magdeburg, Mr. W. R. Cook ; Manchester, Messrs. h. R. Jaggar and J. E. Baker; National of NeAv Zealand, Mr. H. E. Williams ; New Zealand, Mr. W. Craig; Northern, Mr. A. F. Rattray ; North British and Mercantile, Mr. A. H. Miles ; North Queensland, Mr. D. A. Abercrombie ; Norwich Union, Mr H. A. Banner; Phoenix, Mr. R. M. Simpson ; Royal, Mr. J. A. Law ; Royal Exchange, Mr. W. A. Walton; South British of New Zealand, Mr. J. Kirker ; Standard of NeAV Zealand, Mr. T. R. Fisher ; Sun, Mr. F. N. Pickering ; United, Mr. J. S. Jameson ; Victoria, Mr. J. Edgar The President informed the Council that the losses of all the companies doing busi,ness in Ne\v Zealand for the year 1898 amounted to £302,490. ■ The officers elected for the ensuing year Avere : — President, Mr. F. H. Pickering, General Manager of the Sun Insurance office (Mr. F. Allen having decided not to accept the office for the current year ; Vice-President, Mr. W. Craig, General Manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company ; Committee, Messrs. H. A. Banner (controlling officer of the Norwich Union), J. Kirker (General Manager of the South British Insurance Company), J. A. LaAV (controlling officer of the Royal Insurance Company), R. M. Simpson (General Manager of the Phcenix Assurance Company), and H. Walkley (controlling officer of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company).