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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 95, 25 April 1891, Page 3

Insurance. COMMERCIAL TT NI O N U ASSURANCE /"COMPANY (LIMITED). Capital Fully Subscribed £2,500,000 Capital Paid Up £250,000 Total Invested Funds £2,500,000 Total Annual Net Income £1,160,000 LOCAL BOARDS, BRANCHES, AND AGENCIES THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND NEW ZEALAND. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FrRE AND MARINE BUSINESS ACCEPTKD AT THE LOWEST CURRENT RATES OF PREMIUMS. CLAIMS FOR LOSSES SHTTLED WITH PROMPTITUDE AND LIBERALITY. The Larjre Resources atcoramand in the shape of Invested Funds and Premium Income, afford the most undoubted Security to Policy Holders. AUCKLAND BRANCH Managehs: MESSRS. JAMES BALLANTYNE GRAHAM and HORACE WALKER. AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. [ESTABLIBHHD 1849.1 THE OLDEST MUTUAL LIFE OFFICE IN AUSTRALASIA. New Zealand Bkandh: Head Office-custom-house quay, wellington. Local Board of Direotops : The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D, M.L.C., C.M.G. (Chairman) The Hon. Charlos J. Johnston, M.L.O. (DeputyChairman) Alfred do Bathe Brandon, Esq. The Hoft. Kdward Richardson, C.3J.G. Nicholas_Reid, Esq. TaitDioAL ofpioicr: Dγ. W. B. Komp, M.R.C.S., EnglanS. Assure your Life in tae Australian Mutual Provident Rooioty, and secure an Annual Bonus pr Dividend, a priviloge which no other Colonial Life Ofllco can t'rant its members. Be careful thatyouSKLECTTlilS SOCIETY, aud do not bo MISLED by tho similarity of Name of some of the other younger Australian Offices. The attention of tho Members and the General Public is called to some of tho special foaturoß oonnocted with this Society, which ia tho oldest Colonial Inotitution ot ita kind, having boon established in the year 1849. Tho results of tho business for tho Fortyfireb Year, ending Slsb December, 1889, may be summarised as under :— FIRST—Tho number of the New Policies issued wae 11,684SECOND — The now Assurance business effected was for £5,0,%,^59. THIRD—Tho New Annual Premium Income amounted to J612L800, FOURTH-The net increaee to the business, after allowing for loss of income from terminated Policies, was represented by 7.028 Policiea, aesuring £8,100,189. FIFTH—The operations of the year raised the annual income of the Society from £1,513,280 to £1,625,185, an incrooso in twelve months of £112,905. SIXTH—The Accumulated Fund was increased during the year by the 6um of £•742,311, equal to *7l per cent, of tho jjroes premiums received. SEVENTH—The deaths among lives assured were 649 under policies, causing claims upon the Society amounting to £269,602, irrespective of Bonus additions, while the number expected according to the Tables used in estimating the liabilities would have boen 1,143, for an amount of £438,97Qi the mortality experience being thus extremely favourable. EIGHTH—The receipts from interest and rents wero £516,632, an amount exceeding tho sum paid for the claims by £133,952. NINTH—The expenses of Management were only 9"g per cent, of the total recoipte. TENTH—Tho cash surplus divided for tho year 1889 wae) £426,494, being at the rate of 416 per cent, on the premiums received. The operations of the Society during the 41 years of ita existence may be summarised I us under :— It has if-Biied policies, assuring £40,41'7,W. It has paid to the representatives of deceased members over iSd-,000,000 in satisfaction of ; death and matured claims. It has divided among the members cash bonuses aggregating over £4i000,000i yielding reversionary additions of over $8,000,009It has acquired an Accumulated Fund ' of iS»,000,000, all invested to yield fully 6 per cent, interest, Assots in New Zealand—£l,273,sl4. EDWARD VV. LOWE, Resident Seoketaet. Branch Office— CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY. . WKLUJfOTeN , . Acckl/AND District Office — C. W. HEMERF, District Secretary. GOVERNMENT UFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. . . ' , Established 1670. ..-.; ■ EVERY POLICY GUARANTEE!) BY THE STATE. For tho following, amongst many rea- . sons, Now-Zoalandcra should support tlioir national office:— ■.. . . 1. Its Security is absolute. 2. Its Premiums are low. :?]¥?;' 3. Its Bonuses are high. ; '"-■['. 4. Its Funds are all invested in the Colony. 5. Its business is restricted to New Zealand, the HEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THEJiVORLD. Now-Zealanders who insuro in Australian and American offices which obtalu tho bulk of their business from tho Old World and the other colonies (including Queensland, Western Australia, and Fiji) havo to pay for THE LOSS ARISING FKOM THE HEAVIER MORTALITY OF THOSE COUNTRIES. The death-rato in Queensland is 50 per cent, higher than it is in Now Zealand. Vne an a 5 e a agffflffiaesfofig , ANNUAL INCOME, over £300,000. J. 11. EICHAEDSON, m Commissioner\TEW ZEALAND INSURANCE IS COMPANY (FIKK AND MARINE). Capi'al , •■ .. •• £1,000.000 Paid-up and Reserve Funde .. .. £450,000 Protection from FIRE or MAKINE LOSS can be effected in this Company. CI<AIJtfS MET WITH PROMPTITUDE AND LIBERALITY. T. J. BRASSBT, Manager. The Dairy. fpREAMEKY BUTTKR. — The TTew V/ Zealand Dairy Association's new dairyman says: " The Butter which I am nownakinjj is superior to that with which I took first prize against all-comers at the Dunedln Exhibition." Thia Butter, whioh Iβ " Better than the Best," may be had from all Grocers, and wholesale from tho Association's Van, or at the Depots at Messrs J. Bycroft and Co.'s Cits Flour Mills, Shortland-street., Tho Brand Iβ the word " Dairy," with tho words " Now Zealand Hairy Aeeooiatlon'' surrounding it. Ask for It, ana see that it bears the brand. TO SHIPWRIGHTS, SETTLERS, and BUSHMEN. Etc.—Old Copper. Brass, Zinc, Tea Lead, Fungua, Beeswax, Shark Fins, and Horseshoes bought, and the best price given, by Ah Chee, Queen-street and Mechanice' Bay, Auckland. TTNSCRUPULOIJS .traders are endea\J vouring to substitute cheap liquor in place of Wolfe's Schnaffs.