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Mr. Thomas Kerr, Inspector of Agencies for the Mutual Life Association on the West Coast, in the ordinary way of business received an application to insure 83 Chinese at £100 a head. Before making arrangements for a medical examination of the applicants he wired to the head office at Christchurch. The reply received was that they regretted they could not insure Celestials on any terms. As the Celestial is a hardy individual it would be interesting to learn the nature of the objection to insuring his life. Probably it was the difficulty of identification and the fear that some Ah Sin games of personation might be played at the expense of the insurance office but for the Chinese to propose to insure at all is in itself evidence that they can fall into European ways in some respects. Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 77, 1 April 1898, Page 5 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP18980401.2.47.1&srpos=60&e=-------100--1----0chinese+fruit+shop+west+coast--