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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 177, 8 July 1884, Page 4

Business Notices. GREAT IMPORT OF TEA. Great saving in household EXPENDITURE, by purchasing EAST’S INDIAN TEA, At 2s. per lb. A REALLY GENUINE ARTICLE, Very strong, both in liquor and flavor, and recommended to all for a trial. TRY EAST'S— For REFRESHING DRINKS,—The wellknown Vin-Sant6, Lime Juice, Lime Juice Cordial, Lemonade Powders, Eno’s Fruit Salts, Sparkling Saline, Raspberry, and other Syrups. TRY EAST’S— For TOILET SOAPS.—Trans-Glycerine, Vaseline, Coal Tar, Carbolic, and Fancy ditto. TRY EAST’S BAKING POWDER, and you will uso no other, being unsurpassed £O.l strength and purity. TRY EAST’S For Prime CanterburylHams, Bacon and Cheese. TRY EAST’S For all GENERAL GROCERIES.—Stock complete, and price-list specially prepared for all Cash Buyers.—Please obtain on J. EAST. Upper and Lower Gladstone Road. 1 ? ’ 872

TE ARAI SAW-MILL. J. R. SURREY JS now prepared to supply any quantity of Timber, rough or worked, including Mouldings of any pattern out from Kihikatea of a much better quality than has ever yet been offered to the Trade, &c., in this district. Orders received at the Town Office, Read’s Quay, and promptly executed. 1077 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 has been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 pci 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 £910,000, 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, aud 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—bcin« above it. The accumulated funds now exceed four millions three hundred thousand pounds sterling. Prospectuses, fo is of proposal, aud all other information may be obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, or from any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. . F. J, PIESSE, Gisborne Agent. I 0 T 1 C E I rpilE JOBBING DEPARTMENT is being supplied with a Choice Assortment of New Type, and work of all kinds will be turned out in a superior style at reuse liable rates.