DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 97, 19 December 1912, Page 5

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFT

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, December IS

Mr. Orton Stevens, manager cf the National Mutual Life Association, lias received the following cable from Melbourne : “The forty-third annual meeting was held to-day, and members are to be congratulated cn the splen-

did results for the year, which is a record one for the association. New business amounts to £3,593,000, being £150,000 increase over last year. The total premiums were £951.000. The interest received was £320,000, the rate of interest earned being higher than last year. Notwithstanding the large amount of new business, the expenses of management are lower than any previous year. The total funds now stand at £7,291,000.

LAND AGENTS’ BILL

AN INTERESTING POSITION

Pahiatua, December 17

An interesting position lias arisen locally regarding the registration of land agents under the Act passed Inst session. The Act conies into force on January 1, and a number of land agents applied to the local court to he registered under it, but no bonds have been given, as the forms being prepared by the Justice Department have not yet come to hand. When’the question was raised in the local court to-day the Magistrate, Mr L. Rexl, said that as the Act did not come into force until January 1 he tailed to see what jurisdiction the court had. He thought it very improbable that the Department would prosecute if the agent was not registered by Jan. 2. He pointed out that there was apparently no provision for taking applications for registration before January 1. The roll of registered agents was made up to January 15. Ho thought v mistake had been made in fixing it it that date for the first year, and thought it would have been better if the date had been made, say, Febru-u-y 10. Local lawyers emphasised the importance of the matter on behalf of local land agents. At the magistrate’s niggostion, application will be made for registration at the first available court, probably at Masterton, after the holidays.