Mr. V. Smith Told by a Sydney insurance company manager 34 years ago that he was dead, a Melbourne man this week realised on his life policy. The man, Mr. Victor Smith, managing director of a Melbourne racing newspaper, took out the policy with ?20 he won on a race double before leaving to fight with the first AIF in France. When he returned to Australia in 1918 he called at the office to Day up his premium. The manager told him he was dead, that the policy had been terminated and a cheque for ?204 made out in full settlement. Mr. Smith, who was a nephew of the late Sir James Joynton Smith, refused to sign a receipt for the cheque. The board of the company rein stated Mr. Smith's policy. March 4, 1952.