FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1905, Page 4

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

REGISTRAR'S ANNUAL REPORT. (Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 3. The annual repor,-) of the Registrar ol Fr.'bndly Scc'Mdie>i .stiafefc ,tha,t at the end of 1904 itliere were 465 -lodgjris with 43,052 members. Tlfe total funds amoun'.cd to £883,751, representing a capital avera^:-! of £19 10s 7d. In 1399 t.he numbers were 38,202, capital £728, 249, and average £19 lg 3d. EM^ry : ear since )ias diown nil increas c in the mim bers and capital but; th{? average fluctuat ed .tihus 1899 £11 Is 6d ; 1900^ £19 Os 9d; 1901 £19 10s 4d; 1902 £19 9s lid 1903. £19 10s 7d.. Tli© funds were di» posed as follows:' freehold mortgage £570,586 or 6.56 per dent; land nrd buildings £13Q,848 or 14.81 per cent; Post Offlcs Savings Bank £45,379, or 5.13 psr cent ; 'oilier banks, £45,0G'J, ot 5 10 per cent; cash (not at interest) municipal debentures, £23,327 or 2.C4 $:•* cent; ather investments £'14,691 or 1.66 per cent; furniture, £10,414 ox 1.18 per cent; other assets £6587 or 0.75 psr cent. During the year 8524 members were slok, and 20 pi3T*cent of every 100 members at> risk. Tliy sickness aggregat ed 65.008 weeks 8 days, equal to seven weeks 4 days per sick member and one. week 3 days 22 hours for ? each members at risk. The deaths wjiire 8.49 per 300 of risk, as against' the .thro previous years of 7.88 and 7.20. The percentage of cVath of wives was 3.79 per 1,000 mem bers. The average .of contributions and ffrsei ca.m 6 rtf> £1 9s Id the sa-mi-. ns lastyear ; tlie sickness bens?ifib came to £5.95 per eick member; and a griieral average of £1 Is 4d. - The funeral benefiti camn to 5s Id per member, 10d mons 1 tluan in 1902. The value of sick and funeral funds was £789 6s 2d showing a cain of 643.206 for the y^ar.