Accident Insurance.

Safety of travel on the railways is incidentally acknowledged in certain free accident insurance schemes. Thus we find the Auckland Star in a recent issue holding out the inducement, to subscribers, of free insurance “up to £4,000 in the event of husband and wife being killed in a railway accident.” The same scheme provides a benefit of only £250 in the case of a motor car fatality.

In view of the New Zealand Railways five years’ world's record in the safe transport of over 125 million railway passengers—it is not surprising that circulation stimulators should find backing the railway so heavily in preference to the motor a safe security on an insurance gamble—they have irrefutable statistics to justify their optimism.

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