BULL-DOZING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3721, 4 September 1886, Page 3

BULL-DOZING.

The Government Insurance have put int our hands a leaflet or Agents' Canvassin; Squib, which, to our minds displays th tactics of the bull-dozor and blackmailer i headed " Startling Disclosures," &c. The leaflet m question is Bimply a tiradi of abuse of the Equitable purporting to bi extracted from a paper called the Policy ffolde, with anonymous running comments thereon Wo hare made enquiry, and find that th< whole thing is a fabrication, and as far as thi paper called the Policy Holder is concerned we have searched through the followinj eminent authorities and find no record o. such a paper as the Policy Solder: — "Sells' Dictionary of the World's PrcßS for 1835." " The Newspaper Press Directory s con taining full particulars of every newspaper magazine review, and periodical published h the United Kingdom and British Isles, 1885." " May's British and Irish Press Guide 1885." Consequently one is justified m saying that as arespectablo publication, tho Policy Soldo does not exist. At any rate the uso of such terms ac " rottenness," " wasteful and extravagant management," 4c, m connection with the foremost Life Office m the world is simply scandalous and impresses us as disgraceful to those who issued it. The Government Insurance may well issue such a Squib anonymously ! The only definite comparison made m the leaflet is that of comparing the total expenses of this Office with the cash dividend paid for 189-1. This sort of comparison m a life assurance society is about at sensible 89 the proverbial comparison of " chalk to cheese." If they will liavo a eomparion of this sort wo observo that the