Eighty-Five Footballers Compensated this Season

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 11

Eighty-Five Footballers Compensated this Season

SUN PROTECTS PLAYERS

Recent Payments under Free Insurance Scheme

SINCE the present football season commenced, The Sun has compensated ''eighty-five players of all codes under its libera] free insurance scheme for injuries received on the football field. The Sun, which originated free insurance in New Zealand, is the only paper which compensates registered subscribers for any injuries that result in temporary total disablement. Footballers have been quick to realise the advantage of becoming regular subscribers to The Sun, and it has become the footballers’ paper, not only on account of the free insurance, but because the best reports and most competent football criticism are to be found in its columns. Recent payments for injuries include the following :• —

G. Davis, 3 Castle Street, Grey Lynn, bootmaker, injured at football. H. McNeil, 110 Calliope Road, Dcvonport, steelworker, injured at football. E. J. Broadhurstf, Huntly, painter, injured at football. J. Brimble, 32 Willow Street, Te Papapa, motor driver, injured at football A. Saxon, Victoria Street, Relmont, clerk, injured at football. T. Poland, Baldwin Avenue, 3?oint Chevalier, cable-layer, cycle accident. B. G. Penny, 5 Altham Avenue, Edenuate, driver, motor-cycle accident. C. M. Davies, Taupiri, buttermaker, Injured at football. . Wilkinson, Manunul, farmer, injured at football. T. O’Brien, bank officer Morrinsville, injured at football. L. Hutt, 30 Richmond Street. Mt. E °f n » labourer, injured at football. W. s. Smith, Hakanoa Street, Huntly, miner, injured at football. H. McGregor, Id Troonvlile Avenue, carpenter, injured at football. Cyril Turton, 63 Dry den Stree.t, Grey hynn, grocer's assistant, injured at tootbali.

J* A Harding, 22 Courtville, Auckland, clerk, injured at football. J. Rukutai, Lower Queen Street, ouenunga, knocked down by car. J. Cock, State forest camp, Okatea, labourer, Injured at football. Usher, IS Tennyson Street, Mt. stonemason, injured at football. , A J- Connelly, Oner&hi, Whangarei, labourer, injured at football. McLoughlin. 3 Cross Street, Newton. salesman, injured at football. R* H. Carter, 29 Mt. Eden Road. Plumber, injured at football. G * Dickson, Hikurangi, trucker, injured at football.

J. H. Traill, 19 Uigar Place, meat grader, injured at football. J. O’Connor, 5 Upper Vincent Street, Auckland, bootmaker, injured at football. J. Wheatley, 10 Schofield Street, Grey Lynn, blacksmith, injured at football. T. Green, Ngaruawahia, injured at football. J. R. Purdy, 137 Wellesley Street, waterside worker, injured at football. R. Longville, 40 Virginia Avenue. Eden Terrace, motor driver, injured at football. J. Voysey, 205 Hobson Street, driver, Iniured at ffiptball. W. M. Cuthbert, Glen Massey, miner, injured at football. G. Sloan, Surrey House, Rotorua, railway employee, injured at football. S. McCarthy, 65, Albany Street, Herne Bay, labourer, injured at football. S. V. Doherty, Glen Massey, miner, injured at football. G. A. Archer, 242 Mount Albert Rd„ Three Kings, carpenter, motor-cycle B. Wickham, Postage Road, New Lvnn, plumber, injured at football. W. R. Gardner, Valley Road, railway employee, injured at football. F. J. Murphy, 51 Lake Road, Devonport, plasterer, injured at football. G. W. Stewart, 9 Challinor Crescent, Mt. Albert, storeman, injured at football. T. Feckham, 79 Williamson Avenue. Grc-y Lynn, wharf labourer, injured at football. C. Morris, Portland, labourer, motorcycle accident. L. R. Edwards, Taupiri Street, Te Kuiti, knocked down by motor-car.