LIFE’S LOTTERY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12080, 20 October 1933, Page 2

LIFE’S LOTTERY

FREAK INSURANCETEETH AND LEGS To the insurance broker, the ‘lottery of life” consists of one long (series of “risks. ,f And he will issue you tickets in thi slottery covering risks of the arrival of twins to the chance of the outbreak of a revolution. For a sum of money, great or small, according to his assessment of the risk, the insurance man will insure prospective sufferers. They may be pessimistic, these people who attempt to secure some measure of isolace in the event of their worst! if ears being realised, or they may be merely canny in their desire to back all their fancies both ways.

To holiday-makers in general, rain is a tragedy. To the man who took the odds about the chance of a downpour during his hoi didays it would be, at least, a mixed blessing.

Even the dismay occasioned by the doctor’s announcement of ‘.‘twins”, might bo mitigated by the remembrance of the insurance policy', which had proved a winning ticket. Hundreds of people who could claim no intimacy with Royalty have insured the King’s life. The Prince of Wales is no whit less well provided 1 for. /

A young man, (whose hopes and fears had fluctuated violently while his grandmother included or excluded him from her will, recently tried to shift Iris load of uncertainty to an insurance company'.

Yet another careful man recently attempted to secure a policy against his own change of religion, since such a step would' exclude him from participation in hs. father’s for tune.

People have inquired concerning depreciation of the value of property in the event of a suburban council’s diecisiion to remove a park. War is a contingency against which a policy may be taken out, and the chances of a revolution have.been covered. In America, “million dollar’’ legs after clo.se examination, for signs of weakness, have been insured frequently.. A tooth, as part of a “sunny smile”, lias Been valued at some hundreds of pounds. Since kidnapping has become a popular gang operation, possible vie tims have insured themselves for [sufficient to pay the ransom, and perhaps show a small profit on the experience.