VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS AND LIFE INSURANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16646, 3 September 1914, Page 4

VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS AND LIFE INSURANCE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln your reply to "A Father of One of Them " in your correspondence column of to-day it is stated that " insurance complies which take tho war risks demand a higher premium both from thoso who are already insured with them and from thoso who want to insure." Will you kindly permit me to state that an error has been made so fir as thoso already insured n this Department are concerned. They, are not required to pay any extra premium; indeed, they may travel or engage in any occupation without restriction.—l am, etc., J. C. PRUDHOTC, District Manager Government Life Insurance Department. Christchurch, September 2. HOSPITAL VISITORS' TICKETS. *TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Do you think you could confer a favour on tho visitors to the Christchurch Public Hospital by miking any suggestion to the officials whereby they could arrange to issue the tickets to tho e anxious people to see their folks in tho institution ai soon as the hour strikes? The man who issues the tickets now does not start to do so until nearly two o'clock, and some folks do not their tickets till a good quarter, of an v mr efter that. As thero is only an hour given to see the pntientr. on week days—Wednesdays and Thursdays—it is a pity for the visitors to lose a quarter of that hour. Perhaps one or H-o of the convaleseent patients wonld not mind assisting in serving out the tickets.—l am, etc., ONE OF THE VISITORS. Papanui', September 2.