A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.
ORDER XXIII.—COMMERCIAL, FINANCE, AND INSURANCE OCCUPATIONS (excluding Clerks)
Sub-order 2.—Persons Employed in Finance and Insurance
795.—Insurance Canvassers
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- agent, assurance, insurance ;
; insurance canvasser, insurance collector
- canvasses for new life and health insurance policies; collects premiums weekly or monthly on policies already held, in assigned district; works under district superintendent (793) (q.v.) and is paid by commission.
- agent, club (e.g. burial club, sick club, benefit society)
- as for agent, assurance.
- canvasser, insurance
- see agent, assurance.
- collector, insurance
- (i) visits members of sick club or insurance society at their homes to collect weekly or monthly premiums;
- (ii) see agent, assurance.
- traveller, insurance
- travels from place to place in a specified area in search of new policy holders for an insurance company (not usually life insurance), working on salary and commission basis or purely on commission.
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From:
A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain. 