N.M.L.A.s Transactions In 1937

Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 3

N.M.L.A.s Transactions In 1937

I As a result of the transactions of the I National Mutual Life Association for ; the year ended September 30, 1937, the sum of £1.911.008 was added to the assurance fund, which amounted to i £42.794.134 at the close of the year. The investment fluctuation reserve fund now amounts to £1.130.587. The total income for the year was £5,005.733. which included £3,800,440 for premiums and £1.725.287 for in* 1 icrest tafter deduction of rates and 1 taxes amounting to £123,874.) 1 Policy-holders, or their representatives. received £3,126.051 from the association during the year. Thejiotal j assurances (excluding bonus additions). in force at the end of the year i amounted to £106,116,039.

The whirligig of Time brings many changes in our social life. Fifty years ago our old friends “Mr Punch,” in his humorous way, wrote: “The ideal wife is one who allows smoking all ever Ihe house.’ In that day smoking was tabooed by most wives, and if hubby wanted a whiff he usually had to seek the seclusion of the summer-house or the coal cellar. Cut most wives smoke themselves now. and would be simply k-1 without their cigarettes! Yes, we are living al a taster pace (him they did in Victorian days, and the “wood” u: more appreciated then ever before especially if it's “toasted,” with yts beautiful flavour and rare fragrance. There’s no "bite" in "toasted. ’ Toasting lakes it clean out. and tho tobacco is iff; a.- pure, sweet, nieliow. cioi and comforting as it is possible to make ik Once you change ever to Cut Plug No. 10 ißullshead). Navy Cut No. 3 ("Bulldog), Cavendish, JRiverhead Gold or Desert Gold, you 11 never be content with ordinary tobaccos. "Toasted” makes friends - -and keeps them! P. 714