AUSTRALIAN NEWS
i MUTUAL LIFE AND CITIZENS CfOMPANY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, March 19. At the annual meeting of the Mutual Life Assurance Company it was stated that new business represented 13,542 policies, assuring £2,511,800. The total surplus was £208,235. It was the most successful year on record. , HIGH RENTS COMMISSION. Sydney, March 19. Before the Rents Commission, the Acting-Director of Works gave evidence that the cost.of labor and material for building had increased forty per cent, in ten years, and eighteen per .cent, in the last two yean. THE COMMONWEALTH AND NEW -i ZEALAND. 1 Melbourne, March 19. I Mr. Fisher states that progress is be-■; ing made with negotiations with New Zealand for closer relations with the Commonwealth, and he hoped something would result. The negotiations were not of a formal character.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 224, 20 March 1912, Page 2
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134AUSTRALIAN NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 224, 20 March 1912, Page 2
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