AERIAL INSURANCE.
The insurance men have never yet been behind the times. Like the Athenians of old—in a somewhat different sense—they have always been after the new thing. The recent activity in the airship world has been wponsibla for the introtiucI tiun of a new form of insurance at ' Lloyds. Before the conquest of the English Channel the underwriters agreed to pay forty guineas per cent. This was paid in the case of M. Bleriot, and while in London his monoplane was i'isure.l for £IO,OOO agaimt fire, theft, and accident. A member of a prominent firm of brokers in London say expect shortly to do a large business in aerial in u ranee, and that for the present they are prepared to ofFer the following quotations to prominent) aeronauts only:— 1 Against flying the Channel £35 to £4O (within two months). Against fatal personal accident on sea Against personal injury on sea * £l3(o£is Against accident to aeroplane on sea Against fatal accident on land _ . £l * Against personal injury on land £2O
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9602, 23 September 1909, Page 3
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171AERIAL INSURANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9602, 23 September 1909, Page 3
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