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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 352, 24 February 1871, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Established 1840. FOE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, &c., without reksonal liability. Principal Office: New Pitt-stbeet, Sydney. THE special advantages offered by this wellestablished Society are— 1. UNDOUBTED SECURITY.—On the2Bth Feb., 1869, the ascertained total liability of the Society was £453,000 While the acctumnulated assets were 602,646 Showing a clear Surplus of ... £149,646 There is over and above the Assurance Fund, the additional security of a Special Reserve Fund of £50,000. At the above date the Society had in hand equal to 70 per cent, of the entire Assurance Premiums received from members. 2. L \RG-E BONUSES.—Because being a purely Mutual Office the entire Profits belong to the Assured, and have not to be paid away in Dividends to Shareholders. The total Reversionary Bonuses declared by the Society amount to £485,000. Members of theJAssurance Branch can obtain the value of their Bonuses in Cash, or appropriate them to" a reduction of future Premiums. Premiums may be paid Half-Yearly or Quarterly. Should a member die during the days of grace whilst the premium is unpaid, the Policy will still be valid and effectual. PROFITS DIVIDED EVERY FIVE YEARS. LOANS, within the Surrender Value, are granted to Members on the Security of their Policies. SURRENDER VALUES are granted after a Policy has endured Three Years. Conditions for Residence and Voyaging Most Liberal.

HE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Is a purely Mutual Life Office, Local to Australia and New Zealand, not confined to one Colony, bat common to all; Local to each Colony, but not restricted to any, and operating upon a broader basis, is therefore Safer than an Office confined within narrow limits. Is a life Office having a large number of Policy holders in New Zealand, and investing its Revenue from that place in the Public Securities of the Country. The Assets of tho Society comprise New Zealand Debentures to the value of £64,000. Was established in 1849, aud it has successfully passed through the ordeals to which all new Life Offices are exposed. Having completed the Twenty-first Year of its existence, it has achieved a position of Stability aud Affluence unexampled in the history of Life Offices. Its Accumulated and Invested Fund exceeds £700,000 Its Income is over ... 200,000 a year. THE PROFITS BELONG-EXCLUSIVELY TO ITS MEMBERS. From the magnitude of its resources it ia enabled to declare LARGE BONUSES. The sources of profit are increased by the high rato of interest obtained on the Invested Funds, also by the difference between the margin provided for Expenses, and the low rate of expenditure actually, incurred by the Society, an advantage incidental to a large Business, Neither of which oak Exist in a New Office. The Annual revenue was increased by £32,236 from New Assurances effected in the past year, a rate of progress which entitles it to rank with the First-class Assurance Institutions of the United Kingdom. EXAMPLES OF BONUS. The following examples show the total Bonus Additions to the Policies of £1000, under Table A, up to 28th February, 1860:— 6 gj It Ti di ■a Si SI 31 • % "3 "< g< 2< »"S vH; : I ii_ji_ 26 £1010 16 4 £395 9 1 £161 11 3 £45 13 6 35 1190 4 0 473 15 7 199 4 7 51 4 1 89 1285 16 6 503 18 9 214 0 3 49 11 11 42 1245 9 0 546 5 8 227 8 2 51 18 1 50 1347 810 626 7 4 272 1 8) 73 19 1 Forms of Proposal and every information may bo obtained on application to MR. H. GILFILLAN, Agent for Auckland. 7, Queen-street.

LOOK OUT FOR THE BLUE BOOT, CHEAPEST HOUSE IN TOWN FOX GOOD COLONIAL PEGGED BOOTS. JUST arrived, a large quantity of Ladies' Beat Kid Boots, from Bs. 6d. Maids' Kid -s»ota, from 4s. 6d. A Large and Well-assorted Stock of Children's Boots, from 2s. Easy Style of Boots and Shoes Made to Order on the Premises. Repairs Neatly Executed, at a Price to Meet the Times. Note the Addbess : — » BLUE BOOT, 203, QUEEN-STBEET, Two Boons moM Mabks' Loan Opfice, anb Opposite J. and J. Dickey's. C. BROOKES.