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Tower of Strength

其他書名	A Centennial History of the N.Z. Government Life Insurance Office, 1869-1969
出版	Wilson & Horton, 1969
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E16jGQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The story of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Office, and the security this institution has provided for many hundreds and thousands of New Zealanders during its first century of experience, should be something more than a dry as dust record of policies and investments ...The author has dipped into a past more remote even than a hundred years ago to outline briefly how life insurance began on the other side of the world. Against this background, he goes on to tell of a simple idea which, having originated in the brain of an Otago miner, took definite shape in that of Julius Vogel, one of the leading political figures of his day. Thus Vogel, the "father of State enterprise" as he has been called, became responsible for one of the first pieces of social legislation passed in this country -- the Act under which Government Life was established in 1869. Uppermost in Vogel's mind at the time was the future of the ordinary man and the ordinary man's dependants. ... In the pages which follow we learn something of the lives and personalities of some of those insurance pioneers ... We are told too, of the bitter early opposition, both political and commercial, which Government Life had to face ...." -- Introduction (pages 5-6).