WAR RISKS

Evening Star, Issue 16780, 8 July 1918, Page 6

WAR RISKS

A.MKNDEI) INSURANCE RATIOS. An .amended sehecfrTie of current rates, of war risk insurance- has been issue*! by New Zealand marine underwriter?. Its interest, to the. general public Jics in the fact that \i indicate.;! the zones of <rreatest danger on Iho main .-ea routes <>\ the world. The. rates are for outwards and Homewards, .and are as follow: Ste t -i.i!HM-s.---l T nitod Kingdom, via Hue/, 8 per cent. ; via. Capo or Panama. 5 per cent. ; and United Kingdom, east coa.st, north of London. 10s per confc. extra. France, Atlantic coast, rates am to United Kingdom, via Suez, Gape, or Panama. Mediterranean, riciiifra 1 a.o.d allied ports, ex Adriatic, 8 per wnf... via, Suez, Cape, or Panama. Scandinavia, via- J>iiez. 12 per cent., and via. Cape or Panama, 10 per cent. To or from Port Said or Suez, 10s. per cent. Cnited Slates and Canada, east coast, via Suez. 8 per cent. ; via Cape, 2 per cent. : via Panama, 1 per cent., with 5 per cent, additional, if trairshippin;; at l'nii-ed Kingdom., on United Kingdom rates. United States ami Canada., west coast.. 7h 6d per >:c\\l. Var -vast, India. Ceylon, ami .Burma, 7s 6-i rjer cent. I'aeiiic inlands, Fiji. I\ew Caledonia, 7s 6d per cent. Java., Malacca. Singapore, Penang, and Straus Settlements, generally, 7s 6d. Sonih Africa, 10s Sail.a's. Unile 1 Kingdom, 55 per cent. Uniud Hlotes ami Canada, east coast, 10 per cent, America a.nd Canada, west coast, 1 per cent. South Africa, 2 per cent. The current rates show a, slight reduction foi' tins Atlantic coast of >"i>rth America •>{ 1 per cent,, aid via the Cape, also tor Fiji and New CalcoVnia, outward, via Panama, 2s 6d per cent. The, rate for the Atlantic, coast of the United States and Canada, via Panama, ha-s increased by 5s per cent,