BRITISH INSURANCES
"POLICIES ON GOLDEN MILLER ' , v LONDON, Mardh 20.’ ■ . Mr. Walter Runciman, M;P., 'President of the Board of Trade,.-mentioned some curious risks covered by 'insurance companies when he spoke at the annual dinner of the Institute, of Actuaries at the Cbnnaught Rooms, Ldndon, last 'night. > j “Lloyd’s . will give you a cover' against a-hrirse race being abandoned through fog, ice or snow,” he staid, .“rind ;I umldrMtaHd .that policies have been taken put against Golden Miller refftimngrat Aintree. “Orfb TJbrflpany was asked recently for insurance against thei prohibition ,of mptor horns within the next T2 Mr. JRunciman mentioned that the, '.fbtal Ihshrahce of companies in. Great Britain Mow. exceeded £1,280,--in •addf'ifitJhTifey had reserves for more than £l4B-,00.0,000. Mr. C. R. V. *Uotr£ts," the president/ replying to the toast of the Institute,' jrrpppsed by Air. Ruaciman, said that' ‘less tnan ‘lOO ‘years, ‘a'gb 'it Was notpossible fpr. a 'ihrih to Ihshre against’ ‘eririy "demth in ‘order to give his depen■'ddrits security.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1936, Page 12
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