DOMINION'S OLDEST BENEFIT SOCIETY PASSES
KEW PLYJtOUTH, Jum; 21. Xew Zealand 's oldest benelit society, the Xew Bl'yinouth * Frienclly Society lield its 105th and last annual meeting onight when ii was decided to go into liquidation. For inany years it lias I been the society 's poliey not to admit i new members and membe rsliip hau j dwindled to 14. all of whom are getting [ on in years. The aceumuiated funds j are £2921 axul as the society is one oi I the few unregistered organisations of its kind, members have the privilege of disposing of their own funds. Formed on December 27, 1841, just nine i months after the landing of New 'Klymouth's first colonists, tlie society was then and still is a lodge separate 1 from anv other beuefit society. It is ; believed to have been oue of the smallest lodges if not tlie smallest in "existence.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 June 1946, Page 5
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