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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9517, 18 May 1911, Page 5

Pluvius policies, which insure against rain (luring a holiday, are now available' for visitors to the seacitlo resorts on the south and east coast of England. There are four kinds of policies, oiw of which provides for payment for each separarte week in which there is rain on more than two days, amounting on each to more than onetenth of an inch. The premium is onooighth of the compensation, and thus a payment of 10s per week secures £4 a week. If payment is to he made on which one-tenth of an inch of rain falls, the premium is higher and a payment of 10s per week would secure only 6s 8d for each wet day, The other policies are on similar lines. The official records of rain will he uml, and payment of compensation made without application.