WHAT OUR READERS THINK
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE WAR. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In your issue to-day appears a letter from "A Woman," !n which the following statement appears:— "It is certainly a fact that cefi- .' tain banks and insurance companies are refusing their employees leave to enlist, and, further, are threatening with dismissal all who wish to do so." Speakiug for all those offices transacting firo insurance business ,in the Dominion (and they iucludo accident companies and many marine), I wish to give the statement an emphatic denial. The truth is that these offices not only allcw members of their staffs to enlist, but promise to reinstate them oil their return. Then, with regard to payment during absence, whilst arrangements vary, the usual practice is to grant full salary to married men, and to single men with urgent dependents, and half-pay to single men with no dependents.—l am, etc., R. J. WHITE, President. Council of the Fire Underwriters' Association of N.Z. May 29.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 6
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165WHAT OUR READERS THINK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 6
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