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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1920, Page 10

The Danes have a society unlike those of any other people we know. It is known as "The Maiden Insurance Society." Its aim is to provide for a class—single women of well-to-do families. It shelters and cares for them, and furnishes them with "pin money." Its methods are thus described: As soon as a girl-child is born to him the father enrols her name in a certain association, and pays a certain sum. and thereafter a fixed sum to the society. When sue has readied the age of—we believe —twentyone, and is not married, she becomes entitled to a lived income and to a suite of apartments in a large building of the association, with gardens and park about it, inhabited by other young or older ladies who have thus become members. If her father dies in her youth, and she desires it, she has shelter in this building, and at a fixed time her own income. When she dies or marries all this right to income lapses, and the money paid swells 1 the endowment of the association. Her father may pay for twenty years, and tlien her marriage cuts off all the advantage of the insurance. But this very chance must enable the company to charge lower annual premiums, and make the burden less on the father insuring.

Kenne-lh Panli, a youth of 1(1, was sentenced tn two years' imprisonment at Bristol recentlyi • Evidence showed that he absconded from home at the age of !>, going on a train journey. As a public schoolboy of 14' years, he absconded again after stealing. He was sent to an army .coach, but gave a dance at which 300 guests were present, and enlisted for Russia. He was in-valided home, received an appointment in France, and on returning in September resumed stealing.