The Nurses' Protection and Savings Bank Fund

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 4, 1 October 1915, Page 191

The Nurses' Protection and Savings Bank Fund

Endorsement re Risk for Nurses intending to go to Base Hospital

It is hereby stipulated and agreed that the Member shall not proceed to any Field Hospital or near the Firing Line during the progress of the War m which the British Empire is involved without first having paid to The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited m. advance an extra premium of Five pounds per centum per annum. Failure to comply with. this condition will render this Policy void and of no effect. This extra premium shall be payable only for the period dating from the departure of the Member from a Base Hospital -or otherwise entering the arena of warfare for the purpose of proceeding to a Field Hospital or near the Firing Line, and shall cease on return to a Base Hospital, or on the termination of war -like operations whichever shall first occur. The extra premium for War Risk if the War continues for over a year shall be payable on the anniversaries of the date upon which the first payment of such extra premium became due under the above conditions, and it is further agreed that subject to surviyance and proof satisfactory to the Directors a refund will be made of any due

proportion of such extra premium paid* as circumstances may require. It is further stipulated that should the Member engage m Active Army Service without paying an extra premium evidence satisfactory to the Directors must be produced after the cessation of such engagement to show that no extra premium shall have become exigible under the above conditions. Anything contained m the within Policy to the contrary notwithstanding. In order to make it clear to you from what date the War extra premium will become due, we will quote a specific instance for illustration. Supposing a nurse proceeds, m the first place, to a Base Hospital m Egypt.; there will be no extra premium payable while working under conditions similar to those existing at the present time ; but should she be ordered to proceed to the Aegean or Gallipoli, the date of embarkation at Alexandria would be deemed the commencement of the extra risk, seeing that the vessel upon which she was travelling would be subject to submarine risk or shell fire from aeroplanes, etc.— Stringer and Bridge, Trustees.