LIFE INSURANCE BY WORKING MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 585, 19 February 1876, Page 3

LIFE INSURANCE BY WORKING MEN.

Sifc, — I rend your article of 10-d»y, on Life Assurance with much p'etsnre *uJ interest, but tlieve \3 one point, 1 do not «ay ih»t you ha\ a nob touched it, b-t that requjj-ps clearly setting light before the working mun wkoiaiy bo desirous ol insuring hb lift- 1 ford small umouut will do so. Remove Iheobj. etiou that lie may !o«"o all by bi m*,' ma reason of Black work unable lo leop up his premium-., and tlie ueary sole obj.dion to Liking this prui.ieuuiil elep will be reinofed. It i» tlm th*t Hinders man? a awn from iusimii*, AJany n one leiirs that utter kt cuing up Ins premiums (or two or three years perhaps, ho may meet witu loss ol work, be Imuble to keop tliLUi up, and ho love what he baa paid. — I &m, lie, A WOdKiNfe man. liamilton, Feb 18ch. fj The lnaurabce of life for email sum* of le^a thm£loo can. only bo wmkod by and througti JJenetiu Socst ties. The Hecreiary of eu"h Soceiy acts as a^t »t for the several members of the society i'iBuiins<, recemng their weekly payments of premiums aud paying them to the Insurmoe tigeiit iv the dtstricV Hotmg tor the Goverumeut. W nut we have eu^gestod might bo <anif d out witluut 'much difficulty, that, is, lh<> croation ol •> fund by Jienefit Societies, from whicu tho pa.vrnent of weekly premiums far its members mi.lil bo mudo in caao* where the uieniber bj aickue&i or temporary 1095 of vro/k was unnble to pay them Inuixelf. Mt;niDerB so CiicumaUncd, »udee I, would b<i cli'itfed to r«3«'cn'o ussiatunce and from this the prrimum could bo itkell deducted. The Order of Gnod Icmplars, is for tbe purpose of working the nidustiial brunrhea of the (i^overnmeiit Life As-atuDi-e depurtineiit, oounted as a Benefii Society though it it not really eunh, and probtMj this is tue medium whoso agency the greater proportion of working men insuring would me. We would su^ei-t to the Good Templar Lodges the denirabiKy of bringi ig luliy und perciatently bofOio their members thb va ue of the industrial branch of t'jo GoTernmentlnsurance depariment as workea through tiocictieand tho formilion of a special fund to be contribute' 1 by the insuring memboi'&A* a »oit ot insuraacouporiiris'itanoi). If eftchiuch member p.iid «ay on* half p< nny per week lo every threepenny weekly insurance premium, a fund wonlvl euon be raißt d t quite nmplo to meet a^iccial cases euuli ns that wbicli our loneipoudent ftliUiies to. We ure fully awaro that tlie rea»on ho suites keeps tn'»ny, in all c assoa of doc.ctj, from in»u ving, who would otherwise do to. it is nut perh.ipi, geneially knowii, but alter a c^ifmn uuiubt'rof j)iO' l >i>nnrt litiv* \w»y\ pud, <i« null u % . tho jiajment of .u r tiitsr preiiiium doo< not cuus^ the policy lo lapsu, to wh-it extent wo cmuot jist iinh'j m'>i*ieii'.. any, but all such inf irnmtion u procurable from tlm lophl Foßtii.astor, and should be obtained by secretaries oi Good eiuplar Lodges and Btriiuiit So<i lies for Iho ml >riiiatiou and benefit of their mem bora — liD WT]

Oca Bkiok Yamhb.— bnots, whish hnve been hitliorto a S'-amt couiuioilvtv in LLuml on aie soi>n likely to ba ploniy tnoug ), for w ■ biivo two brick yaida g<>m j, one m tho Wo>t aud th« other in the IS i->t township. Mr LLul ou tho West ude Las just fiiiiih.-ii buiiiing a kiia i lie greater purt oi which wo b«lievo have l.'e>-n bespoke by tbc contractor! fur tho new hotel going up alongside the Court-house, tho fmincwork «1" winch w up aud uwking a great show wiLu ill forest of Studs. On tho Ea§l «ido of tho river Mr (Jontes has jUat had a mjat uucce=«fui burn of bricks the prico ofwliicli is advcitisediu another colutnnandat rates which should put. to rout every wooden chimney in the district Indeed, for the matter of tliut with bricka at £2 10a per thousand, considering thojprico of Lauri timber hero, anything in Iho nhano of a public building could be quite a« economically put up ot brick and •hould most certainly be constructed ot' •uoh material. It let-vis oltnoat a tin to couatrucl eucU a building as the Ka«li»h Qhurch in liaunito.), now going.up, of kanikatoa. But certainly it it could not h ivo been built of briolc it nu^bt to haTB been conßtruoted of kanri timber. Bt)twei)n brick and kauii at ''ruling' rates there i-j not we are mfoimed bo groat a diiferencu in coit as would bo ntSrst Sight supposed. To build a oott>»ge for instance of 24tt by 30fL onlj 14,000 bricks would be required fo that the material would nt £3 per Uvusaud, tbd price dehyorotl, not ooel ma/o thus £42.