INSURANCE OF AIRMEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 4 December 1940, Page 4

INSURANCE OF AIRMEN

CONSIDERATION BY GOVERNMENT [From Our Own Parliamentary Reporter] WELLINGTON, This Day. Replying to an urgent question asked by Mr J. N. Massey (National, Franklin) in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, the Minister of Finance (Mr Nash) said that the Government was considering the question of the insurance of airmen on active service. Mr Massey asked for the exact arrangements made by the Minister with representatives of the insurance companies in the Life Offices’ Association, concerning life and industrial policies held by airmen, soldiers, and sailors, and what action the Minister intended taking regarding companies who were not members of the Life Offices’ Association, and whose policies held by airmen, for instance, provided no cover when the holders were engaged in actual flying. The Minister said that as far as he was aware, the only offices in New Zealand which did not belong to the Life Offices’ Association were the Government Insurance Department and the Dominion Life Office. In common with the other offices they did not grant cover for airmen engaged on active service. The Government Insurance Department, however, granted cover, without charging an extra premium, for the period of training in New Zealand. The question of the insurance of airmen on active service was receiving the consideration of the Government.