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Evening Star, Issue 23503, 17 February 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)

PARK, REYNOLDS LTD. AUCTIONEERS LAND AGENTS Directors: E. C. Reynolds. John Geerln. Offices: 39 Bond Street, Dunedin [Opposite Pott Office]. Successors to Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn and Co., who, starting in business in 1861, removed to Manse Street in 1863. Park, Reynolds & Co. (later converted into Limited Company) purchased these premises over 50 years ago, and carried on the business until 1933, when the old premises were sold. The company is now located at 39 BOND STREET DUNEDIN

INSURE AND BE SECURE Ok Rod Zealand Insurance Company Cimited 81 YEARS OF SERVICE 185 V-1940 FIRE MARINE ACCIDENT 81 YEARS OF SERVICE 1859-1940 . TRUSTEE Branches and Agencies Throughout the World Paid up Capital and Reserve— £3,403,462 Net Annual Revenue (1939) £1,542,799 Claims paid to date, £25,280,648. The oldest New Zealand Office Prompt and Liberal Settlements This.is Centennial Year for New Zealand and 19 years hence this Company, too, will celebrate its 100th birthday. It was established in Auckland in 1859, and transacts fire, marine, and all classes of accident business. Early in its career it established branches throughout the world, and ftotn small beginnings has grown until its premium income now exceeds £1,400,000 per annum. Besides New Zealand and Australia, it has branches in India, China, Japan , Africa, America, and United Kingdom. It is alio interesting to note that an agency was opened in London in 1861, that the Australian business was entered upon in 1853, that the ne«t movement was to San Francisco in 1175, and that the Company has operated 59 years in India and Africa, 58 in China, 57 in Japan, and 54 in the Argentina. At all points of operation the company enjoys the highest reputation in the insurance world, and its officers have built up a name for it' that must also bo of value to the Dominion, with whose name it has been associated for so long In many lands. In 1906 it enhanced its reputation by the way it met all its San Francisco earthquake claims—the total net cost to the company by this disaster was £285,694. Nearly 25 years ago it added a Trust Department to it' business, and in the intervening years the growth In this field of its activities is ample proof of its efficiency in administration of estates. Beneficiaries resident abroad and estates which include assets out of New Zealand have the services of the company's wide organisation, which is a matter of definite value to them. The Company's capital is now £1,500,000, and its reserves and undivided profits at the end of the company's last financial year totalled £1,903,462, and New Zealand can indeed be proud of this important institution which had its birth ip this country 81 years ago.

1862 / \ 1940 78 YEARS OF PROGRESS ★ John Edmond Ltd. Hardware Merchants Now under the management of the third generation this old established business owes its success to a policycontinued since its inception—of Progress . . Equity . . Fair Dealing Invercargill ★ Dunedin Timaru