WELLINGTON DISTRICT A.O.F.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1907, 15 November 1913, Page 5

WELLINGTON DISTRICT A.O.F.

: ■AsmrAL xm0rn...... , The executive officers of #6 Wslliugton Distrlfit A.©.!b\,.{tt their annualfo? part for tho year, 191.2-i3j_ state that tli© number of memßprii initiates byf tlio oDVfflts ju tlio district was 4:11, aild!tlu) Humb&r wiiose membevship svaS-can-ciollcd ffom various causes was 395, the net itoefeaso ill fiiembers. borog 13. Thefig results aro iiofc coii.sido.fejj (j.ajto satisK factory. Good work been donflf Bering this period by district tfustcos,., and every penny that has been available, ■during tilio year lias been ihvest-ed by? them i« securities at 6 per cent, inter.- , est, They wore, for tho first tinie. ab!<* to mako an adrnneo on farm property,, ■a clnss of Eecurity much soiighi aitcr by investors, Tho Cental Investment' f\md has also been made gopdaiso ■of by tho courts. In fcfoiriiiK'toHslia aßitotion for a Goyonim.entswvqntiQii scheme- to nssist frifiidly societies, tiro roporii states that whilo friendly society meitibers havo been struggling ■.e.ncN (joticaHy for years to , .holp tp : pro\fidq. without any qutsid.e assistancej tor tjie.ir old age and agailist sickijds.s, ihoj .ati) now required, through..t.axa.tiq.n;'tb;:i!o)itribute as private indiv.iiju.aVs towards tho payment of' ah old: allowance for tliosi? of thp community who jilayod in the service of tlic. State or soino of tlio local bodies. Thff mnjoirit? of inombßrs a.ro workcrji wlioso income is sudh that it leaves jittlo or. uotlviiig. over after prori.dtng- for immediate Wants, but they havo manage*} 'to.Wp Up thoir uiein.bersiiip ii) their soc(otfes s thfereby mutually assisting : on.p jj-nfttfef to tidq-oyor periods of ■si.cKiies.s.'aiid. distress., and in this way sufelv they have saved ftp community ■■spnifetliing in tho «atee of cliaritttijlq a':id : . tlio WfiHiflpton district eSocutive are strongly of ppi'nion, tliorcforo, that they sliotiicl 1» onconvaged nnd sbiuo assistance: fiiv??) thp.ni in providina. for iJifetr « old sugo. liiist year tho .sociotiog. in New Kcai.aml paid' away fi72,250 for and J813,'i)27 for fii.ncral in addition tlmy prorided ttiGtJ.icnT ntte.ndance ajvd nvodlcino for 78,243. mombeia and their familiO!»~