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Citizens News, April 20, 1977
Zurich man president of OMIA
John Consitt, Zurich,
Secretary -Manager of the Hay
Township Farmers' Mutual Fire
Insurance Company has been
named President of the Ontario
Mutual Insurance Association for
the year 1977-78.
He took office following the
Association's Annual Convention
held in Toronto at the Sheraton
Centre in late March. Mr. Consitt
was appointed to the Ontario
Mutual Insurance Association
Executive in 1972 as the
representative of Group 4 of
the: Farm Mutuals,which is made
up of 12 such companies in the
London area.
There are approximately 55
Farm Mutuals across Ontario
who are members of the Ontario
Mutual Insurance Association,
with a Central Office of the
Assoication located in Cam-
bridge, Ontario. Mr. Consitt is the
third person from his Company to
have the honour of being
President, having been preceded
by Herbert Eilber in 1943 and
Reginald Black in 1964.
The Farm Mutuals presently
are restricted to insuring only
farm risks, urban dwellings,
cottages and churches, and the
Ontario Association is trying to
get licences to sell insurance
to farm -related commercial
business as well. Presently the
Ontario Insurance Act prohibits
the Mutuals from insuring such
commercial farm -related in-
surance coverages as small farm
machinery retail and repair
shops;" retail seed grain
operations; retail spray
materials and fertilizers; and
small abattoirs. Past -President
of the Association, G,L. Welsh
told the Convention that current
legislative restrictions should be
removed so the Mutuals would be
able to write risks incidental to
farming operations.
Mr. Consitt says that it is now
becoming possible for Farm
Mutuals to get into automobile
coverage, something they were
John Consitt
unable to do in the past. He ex-
pects several companies will be
branching out into this field
within the next two or three
years, but feels there is still a lot
of ground -work to be done prior to
doing so.
Mel McIntyre, Cambridge,
Executive Secretary of the
Ontario Mutual Insurance
Association told the convention
that the farm Mutuals have the
encouragement of the Ontario
Department of Insurance, which
wants to see the Ontario -based
companies expand to help offset
the dominant position of foreign-
owned property casualty in-
surance companies in the Ontario
market.
Officers of the Ontario Mutual
Insurance Association Executive
for the year 1977-78 are as
follows: Past -President, Gordon
L. Welsh, Cambridge; President,
John R. Consitt, Zurich; lst Vice
President, Vernon L. Inglis,
Formosa; 2nd Vice -President,
Maurice Leduc, Alfred; and
Directors Ed Pellow, Tavistock;
Dave Wilson, Chatham; Bruce
McBlain, Caledonia and Dave
MacKay, Lindsay. The Executive
Secretary is Mel McIntyre,
F.I.I.C., Cambridge.
Those attending the convention
from the local Company in ad-
dition to Mr. & Mrs, Consitt were
the following members of the
Board of Directors and their
wives: Howard Datars, Dash-
wood; President; Carl Turnbull,
Dashwood, Vice -President;
Donald Campbell, Bayfield;
Leonard Erb, Hensall; Elmore
McBride, Exeter and Arnold
McCann, Dashwood. Also at-
tending were Agents Jack
Scotchmer, Bayfield and Glenn
Webb, Dashwood and their wives.
Other Directors of the Company
are Herb Beierling, Zurich; Cecil
Desjardine, Grand Bend; Robert
Glen, Clinton; Agent Elgin
Hendrick, Dashwood; and Office
Staff Heather Decker and Verna
Gingerich.
CONSOLATION CHAMPIONS
NS —The Blues were the winners of the Consolation trophy in the Zurich
recreation hockey league. Left to right are; front, Ron Oesch, Ken Clarke, and Bill Hoffman; middle, Mahlon
Martin, Dave Tayler, Jim Sweitzer, Andy Durand and Norm Koehler; back, Gary Koehler, Eric Smote, Jim
Wildfong, Percy Bedard and Dan Durand. Absent are Glen Zirk, Jim Dietrich and Doug Stade.
photo by McKinley
Huron P.C.'s
Continued from front page,
Jim Ainsley, Goderich; Robert
Emerson, Ripley; William
Musser, Exeter; Gerry Holmes,
Clinton; Robert Dinsmore,
Seaforth;
Directors: Joe Reichenback,
Mildmay; Mrs. Donna Woods,
Clinton; Ed Powell, Wingham;
Roy Cousins, Brussels; Elmer
Hayter, Varna;
Young PC director, Miss Janet
Haines, Wingham; election
finance chairman, Lorne
Kleinstiver,Dashwood, sec.-tres.,
Mrs. Betty Graham, Brucefield.
The executive also includes the
chairpersons for each of the
municipalities within the riding.
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