INSURANCE AGENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 186, 16 June 1879, Page 3

INSURANCE AGENTS.

It may not be generally known (says the Australasian Insurance and Banking Record) even in insurance circles that there is a sort of recognised' 'Legion of Honour" in the insurance world/in England. Not that it by any means holds tho same position as tho French degree of merit, but still, in its way, to ,b» included in the legion is an honour /which may be presumed to be worth striving for. Shortly, this legion is composed of life-assurance agents, who have/done during a year £IO,OOO in now insurances; and in at least two offices in /England, both holding very respectable positions, and of considerable standing, the consummation of this result is the entm to ohe annual dinner in London, when they meet with their successful confre/es, and the directors and oftcials of theii' companies, and where amid pleasant and after-dinner talk "over | the. walnuts aim the wine," and a few hints are dropped to bear fruit in the I future, and lasting friendship I formed, The chairman of one of these / offices, at the (last annual dinner, intiI mated that a trophy had been prepared I for competition among the various agents, / to be awarded to the one who did the I largest new business in the year. This trophy was in tho shape of a handsome inkstand, sermounted with game-cocks wrought in silver, in illustration, we JSrethe pertinacity with which the pJize wasl<J be fought for. At tlie annunl dinner of this office 23 agents were present, who had each done during the year £IO,OOO and upwards of new business. And these, be it remembered, wero not travelling agents as employed in these Colonies, devoting their whole time to the business of the office, but local agents, whose insurance agency was a secondary and subsidiary part of their business.