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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1557, 28 September 1912, Page 2

MEETINC3, THE SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY; LIMITED. NOTICE is hereby given that tho Ordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the abovo Company will bo held nt tho Hend Office of tho V.'ompany, Queen Street, Ai.vk'cvld, on THURSDAY, the tenth day ol October, 1912, at eleven o'clock in tho forenoon. BUSINESS: To Receive tho Report and Balancesheet for the year ended August 31, 1912. To Elect Two Directors in the place of W. C. W. M'Dowell and W. R. Wilson, who retire in accordance with the Articles of Association, but aro oligible, and offer themselves for re-election. ' To Elect Two Auditors in. place of G. S. Kissling and W. B, A. Morrison, who offer themselves for rc-elcction. As soon os such business is concluded, the Meeting will resolve itself into an Extraordinary General Meeting for the purpose of considering, and if approved of passing, tho following six resolutions which are intended to be proposed to the Meeting as separato and distinct resolutions. , 'RESOLUTION NO. 1. That the objects of the Company be extended so as to include power to acquiro and hold shares in any- Company or Corporation carrying on insurance business of any kind, and that for suoh purposo the provisions of the Memorandum of Association of the Company be, and they are hereby altered Dy deleting from sub-clause (0) of clause 3 the words "other than a Company or Corporation carrying on insurance business of any kind," , and adding tho words "association or society," so that tho said sub-clause (0) shall read as follows:—To invest and deal with the moneys of the Company not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined, and in particular in purchasing or otherwise acquiring and holding shares' in any limited company or corporation, association or society. And that the Directors be authorised to apply to the Court to confirm this Resolution. 1 ' RESOLUTION NO. 2. That Articles 79 and 82 of the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by substituting tho words "six hundred' for tho words "one thousand." RESOLUTION NO. 3. That Article 102 of the Articles of Association of the Company bo altered by striking out and cancelling the words in brackets in sub-clause (4) of the said Articles ("other than companies carrying on insurance business of any kind"), and by adding the words "associations or societies" after the words "limited companies." RESOLUTION NO. 4. That. Article 103 of Articles of Association of the Company be cancelled and tho following Article to be numbered 103:— "The Directors may with the sanction of the Company in General Meeting declare a dividend to be paid to the members upon the amount paid up or duly credited as paid up on each share, and they may with the like sanction declare and pay a bonus to the members. The Directors may also from timo to time pav to the members such interim dividends upon tho amount paid up or duly credited as paid up on each share as appear to the Directors to be justified by the profits, and position of the Company." RESOLUTION NO. 5 That Articlo 108 of tho Articles of Association of the Company be altered by inserting the. words "or bonus" after the word "dividend" in the first "line and the words "or bonuses" after the word "dividends" in the .second line? RESOLUTION NO. 6. . . That Articlo 131 of the Articles of Association of'the. Company be cancellwl and tho following Articlo Substituted, to be numbered 131: Any notice sent , by post shall be deemed to have been ' served on tho dav following the day on which tho envelope or wrapper coni taining the same shall have been posted, and in'proving such Bervicq it shall be sufficient to • prove that the • envelope or wrapper containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post office. Should the above Resolutions, or any of them, be passed by the required majority, each Resolution so passed will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened. Tho Transfer Books of the above Company will be closed from tbe 27th day of September, 1912, to the tenth day of October, 1912, inclusive. Dated at Auckland this 18th day of September, 1912. By Order of the Board of Directors, ;R. HISLOP, . \ • General Manager. SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING will be held in the Committee Room, Town Hall,« TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1. at 8 p.m. His Excellency Lord Islington will Preside. Speeches by His Worship the Mayor, Misses Richmond and Greenwood, Archdeacon Harper, Father Venning, Air. F. M. B. Fisher, Mr. Allen, and Mr. A. R. Atkinson. ' , , -I Home Printing Outfit Th« Che»peit Set of Eabbir Tjrpa Erer Bold Complete with orer liO Lelteri,l^urei,Stopi, P&SSAH w |ne Tyv«-llolder, Tumor* SelMnte. GVScKwk y !***• "HI b»t« it* oojt th« first you " "netn t beoki, ermlopti, cirdi, &o. Only wfe-X ii. id-, we p«j yoitife anywhere.. The Unton fflfg. Go. 299 Elizabeth St., Melb. The Umaoo Cigarette Roller 1 i , r—w mnVei thm Id one mlnote, '*r|e or null. h»rd of 10ft. / \Yoikah nukt !Oo }u»t mjoti >CHI jutt tht to. Bliyrtl Vtcsft rcu prefer, at the eoit of 50 m»chinfl-mt4«. -Roller Ukei no more mom th»a % pfc. . jrai—r-il-l pencil in your pocket. Priea y SEVEN PBJiOB. posted any ' wlier*, with full <Ur«atiom. OhUlnatte only from Two for One Shilling. The Union Co., 299 Elizabeth St., Melb GOVERNMENT IhSujtANCf DEPARTMENT FACT~No. It. At 31tit Dec., 1911, £207.105. IN CASH,-was distributed the Policyholders IN BONUSES. The above sum represents an addition of £333,994 to the sums assured. The bonuses mo now fixed upon an ascending scale, it being arranged that tho increases shall become greater with tho duration of the policy. The practical working of this arrangement will he understood by an inspection of the following examples: BONUSES ON THREE JEI,OOO ; POLICIES. Bonuses The Policv tauks oct ■ allotted 12 Yearß 27 Years j42 Yearg in ' Ago. ego. ago. r £ B. a. £ b. d. . £ 8. d. ] 1902 30 0 0 34 10 0 41) 6 0 ! 1905 30 18 0 36 IB 0 41 11 0 I 1908 31 17 0 36 18 0 42 15 0 J 1911 34 8 0 39 18 0 4(1 fi 0 t ; ( In (°l9n Eo £4 80£520 £5 19 0 C over 1«B) I 1 INVENTORS, I ! CONSULT HENRY HUGHES, LTD., \ PATENT AGENTS, [ 157 FF/ATHERSTON STREET, Estd. 1682, , WELLINGTON. 1