INSURED AGAINST RAIN.
NOVEL SCHEME. BY SHOW PROMOTERS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Oct. 18, 11.15 a.m.) . MELBOURNE, Oct. 18. A novel insurance scheme was effected by the committee of the Tatura Jubilee Show last week, when it was insured against tlie weather. The amount was £2OO, a premium of 25 per cent. It agreed that the company was to pay if rain fell between six in the morning and noon and amounted to' ten points or more. Actually fourteen points' fell, so the committee gained from the company what it lost by the attendance.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 5
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94INSURED AGAINST RAIN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 5
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