MARINE INSURANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 4

MARINE INSURANCE

NX Coastal Rates Reduced

Advice has been received that the war insurance rate for New Zealand coastal voyages has been , reduced to 15s (fifteen shillings) per cent.

of the fighting services by new repatriation legislation, and of the rural community by setting up a Mortgage Bank. <, "The Opposition will be doing its share of window dressing. It will oppose the Government's social legislation. It is certain to attack the Government for its man-power control. It is likely also to attack the Government for enforcing conscription only for the South-west Pacific instead of for all war theatres." From any one of these differences may come the provocation for an early election, which a. large section of Australians regards as undesirable, believing it would interfere with the country's war effort, The Parliamentary , term does not normally expire until the end of the year. Mr. Curtin is anxious that, if practicable, Parliament shall see out its term so that Ministers will not be distracted from administration by politics, but the "Sydney Morning Herald's" Canberra correspondent declares' that "the coming sittings will find it easier than winking to produce a sort of crisis that .only an election can resolve."