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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 25, 21 July 1885, Page 4

GISBORNE BREWERY, ABERDEEN BOAD. CRAWFORD'S d alY ught CRAWFORD'S CRAWFORD'S rEIZE STOOT CRAWFORD’S CRAWFORD'S < GINGER ALB? CRAWFORD'S Athalia n mutual provident society. Established 1849. FOR LIFE ASSURANCE ON THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. Annual Income exceeds £1,000,000 sterling. Invested Funds exceed £5,000,000 sterling. New Zealand Branch—Custom House Quay, Wellington. Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Chas. Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C., Chairman; Hon. Sir W. Fitzherbeit, K.C.M.G., M.L.C., Deputy Chairman ; Hon. A. De B. Brandon, M.L.C.; Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C.; Chas. John Johnston, Esq., M.H.R. Reasons why you should assure with this Society :—lt is the only Colonial Life Office giving Annual Bonuses, reducing the net cost of Assurance to the Lowest Possible Limit. It is the oldest, largest, wealthiest, and most prosperous Mutual Life Office in the Southern Hemisphere. Its Bonuses are larger than those of any other Life Office of similar age in any part of the world. All Bonuses vest immediately Policies have been full 5 years in force. The Society has distributed amongst its members £2,000,000 in Cash Bonuses, representing Reversionary Bonuses exceeding £4,000,000. It issued 7,629 new Policies during the year 1883, assuring £1,577,723, with new premiums amounting to £94,189. THE SOCIETY OFFERS UNDOUBTED SECURITY! LIBERALITY 11 PROFIT II I The Profits have recently been accumulating at the rate of £200,000 per annum. Its Investments in New Zealand securities exceeed £750,000, and all the surplus Branch accumulations are invested in the Colony, thus making it essentially a THOROUGHLY COLONIAL INSTITUTION. Be careful you select this Society and do not be misled by the similarity of name of some of the younger Australian offices. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. F. J. PIESSE, 535 Agent for Gisborne. Australian mutual provident SOCIETY. Established 1849. The oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia New Zealand Branch : Head Office— Custom-house Quay, Wellington. Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Chas. Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C. (Chairman) ; the Hon. Sir William Fitzhcrbert. K.C.M,G., M.L.C. (Deputy-Chairman); A. De B. Brandon, Esq. ; Charles J. Johnston, Esq,, M.H.R.; the Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England), LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM.* —Policies effected during the year 1884 will participate in the Quinquennial Division or Profits, to bo ascertained as at the 31st December, 1884. The profit of the current quinquennium has been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 pei annum, ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFIT.— The profits of the Society are to be divided annually after the 31st December, 1884. The Invested Funds exceed £4,300,000; the Annual Income is upwards of £850,000 ; the Society has more than 50,000 policies in force, assuring upwards of £18,000,000; during the last thirty-four years the Society has paid for claims and matured endowments £1,500,000. The Society has divided among its members cash bonuses amounting to upwards of £916,000, yielding reversionary bonuses exceeding two millions. NEW BUSINESS.—The New Business of the last five years has exceeded Two Millions per anm m, a larger amount annually than has eve r been transacted by any other Life Office in the British Dominions. The cost of management, including commission, is unusually low, being only 9*5 per cent, of the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditui e is on the average 18 per cent, less than the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, and less than any other Life zlssurance Institution either in Europe or America during a corresponding amount of New Business. UNPARALLELED ACCUMULATION OF FUNDS.—Ten years ago the Society, while 69th on the list of British Offices in point of age, was 35th in respect of Funds. It now—January, 1884—stands 4th, only three offices in Great Britain—established respectively in 1815, 1823, and 1825—being above it. The accumulated funds now exceed four millions three hundred thousand pounds sterling. Prospectuses, fo is of proposal, and all other information may be obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, or from any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. F. J. PIESSE, Gisborne Agent. THE NEW ZEALAND TOBACCOGROWING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY (LIMITED). Head Office and Factory : Auckland. IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. The above Company is desirous of communicating with Farmers and others who are willing to grow Tobacco. Genuine Havana and American Seed and all information FREE, which can be obtained at my Office, Mercantile Chambers, next to Bank of New Zealand, AUGUST VOLLBRACHT, 2042 Working Manager. Don’t Dio in Tho House. Ron g h on Rats ” clears out rats, mice beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, files, anta, insects moles, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7A<b The New Zealand Drug Company, General A nnts.