The Nurses' Protection and Savings Bank Fund

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 April 1915, Page 108

The Nurses' Protection and Savings Bank Fund

The Assistant Inspector, Matron-in-Chief Army Nursing Service, Department of Public Health, Hospitals and Charitable Aid, Wellington. Dear Madam, — We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, and m reply to inform you that a member of the Nurses' Protection and Savings Bank Fund is entitled to all the privileges Avhilst engaged m her occupation at all places except at the seat of any war, and is protected Avhilst actually at the front against death, but not m respect to the accident and sickness benefits. That is to say, that a nurse being engaged by the English War Office could accept service m England and receive all the benefits of the Fund, but immediately she sailed for the Continent to a place where hostilities were being conducted, the accident and sickness portion would be eliminated. In the event of the latter, it would be wise for any member to call at the Society's London Office (Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Limited, 33, Poultry, E.C.), to have the accident and sickness benefits cancelled temporarily, and continue the ordinary portion, which is unconditional, by the payment of the ordinary portion of premium. Certain nurses have made individual application for particulars, and we have written them separately. We desire to assure you that no assurance office is able to grant the sickness and accident benefits to any of its policy holders either while engaged m warfare or from any act of war (see conditions of policy). We hope that this explanation will be intelligible, and thanking you for your kind enquiry, We beg to remain, Dear Madam, Yours faithfully, Stringer ai^d Bridge, Trustees.

The trustees would like to draw the attention of nurses to the following typical chums that have been made upon the Fund since the New Year ; one very special feature of the Fund being that any payments received

by members from the Accident and Sickness portion of the Fund m no way depreciate from the Savings Bank portion : — No. 206553, C.G.L., Greymouth, Scarlet fever ; £3 12s. No. 208631, G.E.W., Blenheim, pleurisy ; £1 16s. No. 175042, J.8.C., Christchurch, sprained leg ; £2 18s. Bd. No. 175,809, E.G.R., Motueka, sprained side ; £7 4s. No. 175021, E.L.H., Christchurch, Measles. £3. No. 206626, J.L.F., Blenheim, appendicitis, £16 4s. No. 206448, 8.W., Wellington, shingles: £2 Bs.