To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—I have been recently looking into the matter of what extra pre-miurus life insurance companies charge their policy-holders to meet the risks of residence in the Far East. I find that the practice of first-class companies, while uniform enough for India and the tropics, is by no means so when it_comes to China. Thus, for example, Company A looks on all Treaty Ports as "free," but, on the other hand. Company B allows only Shanghai to be "free," and the others are taken to be more nearly "tropical," and if you live there you must pay x-shilling extra per cent., and so Many people who have taken out their policies at home at what seemed to be reasonable enough rates, have found when they come to reside out here that they have to pay very dearly for insurance if they wish to keep on the same policy.
Can you or any of your readers direct me to any publication where one can find what extra any particular company charges for residence in a given part of China?
If such information has not yet been collected and tabulated, it is surely worth while attempting it. Possibly the management of one of our Directories will give us a few pages in their next issue devoted to comparative details of what life insurance costs us out here, and
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