Let's look at the facts...

Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 97, 15 December 1970, Page 11

Let's look at the facts...

I don't want to put a jinx on the many New Zealanders heading for the snowfields, but let's look at the facts. About 20,000 people who go abroad ski-ing from here are going to break an arm or leg in the next three months or so. Depending on where they go, the break is going to cost a pretty penny in hospital expenses. Austria is considered the least expensive place to get involved in an accident, Switzerland the most costly while France comes somewhere in the middle Insurance people I have been talking to say that for a month 's hospitalisation for a bad break a traveller should be prepared to take out minimum cover of $1000, plus travelling expenses. Not to sound too pessimistic — although those 20,000 visitors will come to a mishap on their skis, they are only a

small proportion of the 250,000 people from this country who now migrate every winter to where the snows are deep and crisp and even.