THE A.M.P. SOCIETY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1424, 15 June 1899, Page 46

THE A.M.P. SOCIETY.

At the annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society at Sydney last month the chairman, Sir Joseph Abbott, said : —“We may well seek for some explanation of the circumstances which have enabled the society not only to so far outpace similar institutions operating under analogous conditions in other parts of the world, but also to do more than hold its own with the best and most progressive offices in the Mother Country. I cannot give such explanation in full, for I confess the results astound me, but I think I may venture to indicate some conclusions which these results appear to justify. I think they show that the people in these colonies have been more favourably oircumstanced, that the conditions of life have been morq easy, that the unit of effort has been more productive, and that the energy and industry of the people have been better rewarded than in any other country in the world. The results indicate, too, that the people have realised to an extent unknown elsewhere the responsibility which rested on them to make provision for those dependent on them through the only channel byi which such provision can be made with certainty.”