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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 23 June 1883, Page 4

A USTBALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT A SOCIETY. I Established 1849. The Oldest Mutual Life Office in-Australia '. ' ! New Zealand Branch: Head Officp, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. . ! Local Board of Directors : ThoHon'. Charles Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C. j (Chairman) ThoHon. Sir William Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G., I M.Ij.C. (Deputy-Chairman) •■%. pc B. Brandon, Esq., J.T?. Charles J. Johnston, Esq., M.H.K. The Hon. Morgan 3. Grace, M.D., M.L.C. ! Medical Officer : DrjW. G. Kemp; M.R.C.S;- (England): ' Last Yeab of the QniNQUENNiirai.. Policies effected during the year 1883 wil participate in the Quinquennial Division of Profits to be ascertained as at the 31st December, 1883. The profit of the current quinquennium has''bcen recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 per amuim. > Annual Division of Peofit. The profits of the Society are to be divide^ annually after the 31st December, 1883. The' Invested Funds exceed . . .£4,300,00V The' Annual Income is upwards of 850,000 The Society has more than 50,000 Policies in force, assuring upwards of -.-- - 18,000,000 Dur,ing tho last 34 years the' . Sbciety has paid for Claims and Malured Endowments ... 1,500,000 The Society has divided among its men; bers' Cash Bonuses amounting to upwards of £916,000, yielding Reversionary Bonuses exceeding Two Millions. I New Business. The new business of the last five years has exceeded two millions per annum — a 1 1 larger' amount annually than has ever been j transacted by any other Life Office in the I British Dominions. The coßt of management including commission, is unusuallv. ow, ; oeing only a'S per rent, of the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditure is, on the average, 18 per cent, less than that; of the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, and less than any other Life Assurance Institution cither in Europe or Amorica, doirig ' a corresponding amount of new business. 1 Unpabahjßlißd Accumulation or 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, 1883— stands 4th, only three offices in Great Britain, established respectively in 1815, 1823, and 1825, being above it. The accumulated funds now exceed FOUR MILLIONTHREE HUNDRED - i THOUSAND POUNDS. ! Assure your Life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT "/ i • SOCIETY, AND SEOUBE AN - .. ANNUAL BONUS OR, DIVIDEND, A Pbitilege which no otheb Life Office in the colony can grant its members. Be]careful that you : select this Society,^ and do not be misled by the similarity of nameiof some other assurance office. The Society can be considered quite as much' a jXexr Zealand as an Australian institution, seeing that all moneys received inthe colony are invested here in advances on mortgage of first-class freehold, securities loans $0 members on the security of 'their policies, Government , debentures, and freehold branch office premises ; and the Society :is thus assisting in developing the resources of the colony. ■ • : ;. - ; THE BOCIETY HAS ASSETS IN NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES j EXCEEDIN& FIVE HUNDRED' AND EIGHTY ; THOUSAND • OUNDS I •. ;,. No-Othbb Life Office in the Co'lont .' ' \ . ■ Can give you such i LARGE BONUSES ' I : • : '- : ' "AS -THE ' ■ .' AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT j -•>'■■■>> ■ SOCIETY, •' ■ ■'. -; And 'the 'effect of an : Annual Bonus, which! can* be' taken in Oash> will be to reduce the cost of 'assurance to tho lowest possible minimum. " ~ If yon arc already sufficiently assured yoursßlf, induce ynur friends-to follow your example. ' .<•"-.••'! ' ; ■ •' Prospectuses, ■ r> .~ms of proposal, and all other informatii . may be obtained on applicationi to the V Uident Secretary, Wellington, or from an* if the Society's agent3. ' Ei>.v"VRP w. LOWE, ■ ; Eosidont Secret"'"' GENUINE (CHEAPNESS ALWAYS , DISCOVERS ITSELF. IT h'us always been the custom of the J. CORNER BOOT SHOP to soil Every Article as reasonable as may De consistent with (i fair living Profit. J Believe not the tradesmen Who tell such big lies About selling their good" At a great sacrifice. They do not "grow fat \ *-. 1 Ou a bare bone who dine, . But dissolve like a shadow ■'■•.' j Who cut it too fine. This Grand Stock contains Goods suited to all occasions and all seasons. Thorough experience in the Business, keenness in Buying and Competing, judgment in Selection, and economy in management, are the grand characteristics of the success of the CORNER BOOT SHOP over every rival. Its Star is in the Ascendant,. The WjeWiifton' luminary, begins : to twinkl<v"& n d will , soon hide its diminished head. THE^CG'JRSER BOOT SHOP. \ AINSWORTH'S. Everybody Knows It. , Let poets sing what theme they choose, I sing about my Boots and Shoes ; Some sing of ladies, dark or fair, Of golden locks or raveu hair. 1 Give me the feet then (I'm all there) To fit thc-n with a lovely pair. Some are great in all such parts Where they (pitch it high) on broken hearts ; Sueh twaddle don't desecrate my muse, I'd rather hear of broken shoes. r3= The Corner Boot Shop, AINSWORTE'S, EVKBTBODY. KNOWS It I JOSEPH SCOTT, BOOT AND SHOE MATCER, Taupo Quay, BEGS to aunounco that, having determined to clear off his large stock, he [ will offer 3PECIA& BAU&AIN3 FOR CASH t ~^^~" All goods will bo sold cheaper and belter than any other house in town i Women's Kid, Levant, Elastics, and Laceups will be cold at Cost Price. Grant Cash Sale begins on SATURDAY, 20th JANUARY, 1883. N.B. — Joseph Scott guarantees that if itny articles purchased at his shop give way, ■•vitiiiuau unreasonable time from the date ■>i sule, ho 'vvill ropair them free of cost. JO3T. P H SCOT '•', j l&c-i'O QrjAr. 1 iVT: .. .:, M ' VIT'ViV t..1.-r {„ 1 •.:•..-.-. • T '