INSURING PUPILS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5156, 25 July 1927, Page 3

INSURING PUPILS.

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD’S SCHEME. CALLING FOR QUOTATIONS. The question of the insurance of pupils of the Napier High School again came under discussion at the last meeting of th© board, when the sub-committee appointed to look into the matter recommended that inquiries should be mqde with a view to obtaining quotations for tjie premium payable (per pupil per annum) to cover the following class of accidents:—

To provide for the payment of medical expenses actually incurred by or on behalf of a pupil of the Boys’ High School and arising out of an accident causing bodily injury or ill-health while participating in any recognized school game, sport, or athletic exercise under the supervision of any member of the school s-taff, whether such accident occurs in pratice of or training for such game, or recognized school or inter-school games, sports, or competitions, or in other games in which school teams' or accredited school representatives participate with .the approval of the headmaster, and whether such accidents occur on the school ground or buildings which have been se-lected or approved by the headmaster, but excluding any accident caused by br contributed to by the negligence of the board or its servants ; the payment of medical expenses not to exceed £2O in the case of any individual pupil in any one year, nor to exceed £2O in respect to apy one accident.

Mr A. H. Hobson: I would like to move that the insurance companies be approached to quote on the basis of the committee’s recommendations, and, further, that all High School Boards in the Dominion be circularised asking them to co-operate. I think that this is possibly a matter for the High Schools’ Association. After further discussion, however, Mr Hobson amended his motion, deleting the last clause, as it would only mean delay, where immediate steps were necessary. His motion found a seconder in Mr C. D. Wilson, and was carried.

The secretary explained that there would doubtless be a good deal of competition amongst insurance companies, and as the scheme would eventually possibly spread to include all schools under the education boards the matter would, in time, become of Dominion-wide importance.