MAORI VIEW OF LIFE INSURANCE.
Mr Clapeott, the travelling agent for the Government insurance Department, (says the Auckland Observer) in a lecture recently delivered by him in Auckland, narrated the following incident :—The lecturer was one day waiting for the appearance of the owner of a house, who was inside at dinner. A Maori passed the lecturer on the street, and accosted him thus : ' What you—you surveyor?' ' JSo.' 'Ah!' rejoined the Maori,' You doctor ?' 'No.' The Maori looked nonplussed. ' Look here,' said the agent, ' you pay me two pound—two pound. You die, the Government pay your wife and piccaninnies L2oo—L3oo.' ' Ah ! kapai,' said the Maori, 'I pay now the two pound —two pound, you pay me the L200.' ' ]so, no !' said Ihe agent, 'you die first —your wife get the L200,' 'Ka kino,' cried the Maori ; 'no fear me die. No good insurance.' The Maori left-
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1039, 5 December 1882, Page 3
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146MAORI VIEW OF LIFE INSURANCE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1039, 5 December 1882, Page 3
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