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Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1900, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident SOCIETY. The fifty-first Annual Report^ Just issued, discloses :— 1. An increase in the NEW BUSINESS for the year of . . £1(58,602 2. An increase in the ACCUMULATED FUND of .. .. 895,691 3. An increase in the ANNUAL INCOME of . . ... . . 94,650 4. An increase in the amount of ANNUAL CASH BONUS of . . 26f44( 5. A net gain in business in force of 9013 policies assuring. . . . 2,102,086 During the year 15,238 NEW POLICIES were issued, being the LARGEST NUM BER yet written by the Sooiety in any one year. The NEW A SUB^NCES issued amounted to £3,956,685, a sam IN EXCESS -of that granted in any year since 1891. The TOTAL ASSURANCES in force (including Bonus additions) now amount to £54,343,821. . The NET INCREASE to. the volume of business in force Is THE LARGEST in any year since 1891. The AOCMULVTED FUND amounts to £16,074,740, and the ANNUAL INCOME to £2,259,357. The RESERVE set apart for the possible DEPRECIATION of SECURITIES nov stands at £260,692. • • The DIVISIBLE SUKPLUS for the year *monnt9 to £506,182, yielding REVERSIONARY BONUSES of about £942,500. . • ' * « ■ ■ • - ' ■ " The DEATH CLAIMS for the year were exceptionally favourable, while the EXPENSES of MANAGEMENT weue very moderate. " .; ' :■■•'■ • — o- — ■ BRANCH DIRECTORS :— The Hon. Morgan S Grace, M.D.,.C.M,G., M.L.^. (Chair- , ma ; the Hon. Charles J. Joh is on, M.L.C. (Deputy ' hairman) ; Alfred de Bathe Brandon, Esq ; the Hon. Edward Richardson, C.M.G. ; Jhn Duncan, Esq. EDWD. W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. Branch Office — Customhouse Quay, Welliugton,

1 R. LEARY, PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST, , The Square, PALMERSTON NORTH. [Established 1875.] IMPORTER of purest drugs and I up-to-date Druggists' Sundries from Europe and America. None but first-quality drugs used in dispensing. Dispenser on premises day and night. Horse, cattle and sheep medicines prepared and stocked. Con dition powder (own make* effective and energising. Veterinary prescriptions of proved efficiency registered «nd filed. Chemicals for sheep far me 's, as arsenic, sulphur, caustic potash and soda, and butter o* antimony, supplied in wholesale and retail quantities. : y Photographic Goods held in atock. All at prices consistent with a moderate profit to vendor and, good value to pnrehaner, R. LEARY mafeea a specialty of STGHT TESTING, and the corrrction of defective vision by suitable lenses. Those who cannot procure spectacles to Bait them shou d vioit his establishment. Sight Testing^aily. Wire Gogsries with plain Glass Fronts' stocked, suitable for those E»G\GED 1^ FLAXMiLLING. Orders by post, telephone or tole graph promptly despatched. Tele p ; one No. 7, connected with district hi'reaus. P.O. Box No. li.

Acetylene Gas. •T HE SAFEST, BRIGHTE^ T, ''lennest and Cheapest of any Ligh* known. For full particulars apply to W. BULLARD. Bulls, Sole Agent for the District P.S.- W.B. will visit all the small towns Bhortly, and /exhibit the light. ' J. GRACE & CO. PALMERSTON; NORTH. Sole Abbots, ... '■' \ A Boon for Mothers, Harrison*? Knitting Machines Sewing Machines Pearson and Bennion's Saddlinc Machinps; Manples and Wnngprs, Knife ! Cleaners 20^. 80s 85s '. Pianop, Organs, Violins, Ba'njnp, Mandolins, Accordions, Concprtinnis, Ensli^h and Gprman Mouth Organs, Flutes, Whistles _. ■ ■ • ■ Sheet Music. -Brass Instruments, all makes. Call in and Inspect.