MR. CLAPCOTT AT DILLMAN'S.

Kumara Times, Issue 2035, 7 March 1883, Page 2

MR. CLAPCOTT AT DILLMAN'S.

Miners at Dill man's and Larrikin's are l-eminded by an advertisement that Mr Clapcott, the Lecturer for the Government Insurance Department, will be at the Empire Hotel, Dillman'e, this evening, from 5 to 9 o'clock, to meet those persons who may wish to see him. In the mention we made yesterday of Mr Clapcott's lecture we entered into no particulars, but some of the very important and liberal concessions lately granted by the department and mentioned by the lecturer it is well should be remembered : First, the cheap rates by which to a man of average age a £IOO policy can be purchased—for about three-half-pence a day, and so on in proportion for any sum, The great desire the Government have to keep policies in force is shewn by their undertaking in the event of a person falling behind hand with the payment, to keep him " good on the books " for half as long a period as he has already paid. That life insurance is a wise matter needs no argument, the fact being generally admitted that while it is prudent for any man by a trifling saving—not necessarily exceeding a few pence a day—to secure a sum payable to himself when he shall have reached any agreed-upon age, it is the bounden duty to obtain by means of a policy protection for his wife and children should he bo taken away from them. Mr Clapcott in his lecture on Monday last pointed out what a humiliating thing it is for the hat to go round to collect a few pounds for the widow and orphans when the cost of one glass of beer a day, if spent on an insurance policy, will enable anyone to secure from £3OO to £4OO for his family. "Regarding the matter simply from a social point of view we thoroughly endorse the words uttered by Mr Clapcott—that " a man who spends a single sixpence to gratify his own appetite, without its being necessary, whilst he has not made provision for those who should be as dear to him as life itself, is a cruel husband, an unloving father, and a bad neighbour."