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Mr Hall of the Eagle Star Company explains insurance policy for bad weather holidays; ENGLAND: London: 1 Threadneedle Street:INTMr Hall (Eagle Star Company) interview SOF (How docs it work in practise?)CU: In this policy if you take a place like Brighton you have to pay 17/6 per week, if thereare 7 wet days that it 1/10th of an inch or more during 10am to 6pm the Company pay £2 a day in excess of the 1st day. If the whole 7 days are wet then you get £12 for 17/6.*** LIB 6964 *** LOCATION UNKNOWN:Cut-ins: MS People on rainy promMS Deck chairs empty and wetMS Band stand, with band but no listenersTS Tables at open air cafe emptyGV Promenade all wetLondon: 1 Threadneedle Street:INTMr Hall (Eagle Star Company) interview SOF (If you lose money in a year like this is it worth it?)CU SOF 'Yes. This is only a small part of our business remember. We underwrite all over the world so if we are losing money in Britain we are probably making it in Australia, NewZealand or South Africa in fact in any part the world where we can quote. London is thehome of weather Insurance' (But is this a bad year?)CU SOF 'Yes. If you look at the figures in Great Britain and the Continent we are bound follow the pattern of weather and it has not been very good but we do not look upon a year until it has finished, its still only August so the rest of the year may help to put it right to some extent by perhaps the end of September'