WAR DAMAGE RISK
INSURANCE SUGGESTION PLAN FOR DOMINION (Tor Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. The need for a war damage insurance scheme to cover buildings in New Zealand, was stressed by the Mayor, Mr. A. H. Allen, at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Chamber o. Commerce last night. "Our position has deteriorated considerably of late,” Mr. Allen, said, “and it is time a scheme was brought forward to cover business premises for war damage, for, after all, they are national institutions.” Some form of insurance should be introduced, Mr. Allen said, so that buildings would be covered in the event of their being destroyed by enemy action. It was time the Government introduced such a scheme, the cost of which would not be very great when spread over the whole Dominion
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 3
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132WAR DAMAGE RISK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 3
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