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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 83, 5 March 1884, Page 4

Miscellaneous. Australian mutual provident society, Established 1849. The oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia. New Zealand Branch : Head Office— Custom-house Quay, Wellington. Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Chas, Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C. (Chairman) ; the Hon. Sir William Fitzherbert. K.C.M.G., M.L.C. (Deputy-Chairman); A. De B. Brandon, Esq. ; Charles J. Johnston, Esq., M.H.R.; the Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England). LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM.—PoIicies effected during the year 1884 will participate in the Quinquennial Division of Profits, to be ascertained as at the 31st December, 1884. The profit of the current quinquennium haa been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 pei annum. ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFIT.— The profits of the Society are to be divided annually after the 31st December, 1884. The Invested Funds exceed £4,300,000 ; the Annual Income is upwards of £850,000 ; the Society has more than 50,000 policies in force, assuring upwards of £18,000,000; during the last thirty-four years the Society has paid for claims and matured endowments £1,500,000. The Society has divided among its members cash bonuses amounting to upwards of £916,000, yielding reversionary bonuses exceeding two millions. NEW BUSINESS.—The New Business of the last five years has exceeded Two Millions per annum, a larger amount annually than has ever been transacted by any other Life Office in the British Dominions. The cost of management, including commission, is unusually low, being only 9’5 per cent, of the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditure is on the average 18 per cent, less than the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, and less than any other Life Assurance Institution either in Europe or America during a corresponding amount of New Business. UNPARALLELED ACCUMULATION OF, FUNDS.—Ten years ago the Society, while 69th on the list of British Offices in point of age, was 35th in respect of Funds. It now—January, 1884—stands 4th, only three offices in Great Britain—established respectively in 1815, 1823, and 1825—being above it. The accumulated funds now exceed four millions three hundred thousand pounds sterling. Prospectuses, forms of proposal, and all other information may be ootained on application to the Resident Secretary, or from any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. F. J. PIESSE, Gisborne Agent. TELEPHONE GENERAL PRINTING-OFFICE. A LARGE ADDITION having been made to the Material in the JOBBING .DEPARTMENT

of this Office, the Proprietors are prepared to undertake orders for any kind of Printing, including— CIRCULARS, BILL-HEADS, RECEIPT & CHEQUE-BOOKS, BY-LAWS, MEMORANDUM FORMS, LEGAL FORMS, HAND-BILLS, POSTERS, &c., &c. and any orders with which the Firm may be favored will be executed in a superior manner, at Moderate Prices. ~|~N addition to the usual work in a Job Printing Office, the Proprietors are prepared to do MASONIC PRINTING in a first-class style. A nice assortment of Emblems and other necessary material is now in stock in this Office, and, therefore, every class of Lodge work can be put out of hand in a correct manner and chaste style. The Proprietors would call particular attention to Blocks for Installation Programmes and Lodge Summons Forms they have in use, as these new additions are Masonic in design and attractive in appearance. LODGE BY-LAWS, CIRCULARS, CLEARANCE BOOKS, RECEIPT FORMS, MENU CARDS, BALL PROGRAMMES, and every other class of Masonic Printing executed at a short notice. All Kinds of STATIONERY FOR LODGES procured at as early a date as possible after an order has been received. In this office the NEW ZEALAND FREEMASON is printed, and has now a large circulation.

PORTER AND CROFT, GENERAL PRINTERS, GLADSTONE ROAD, GISBORNE, Flics and Bugs, Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rabbits, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” 7‘d. The New Zealand Drug Company, General Agents.