NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12770, 11 February 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In liia address to the^, delegates at the Oddfellows district meeting yesterday, G.M. Bro Peter Higgins quoted from the report of Mr A. T. Traversi, Government Actuary, to §how that it was a fallacy to suppose that in accumulating large funds Friendly Societies were working for the benefit of posterity as against the contributors. The quotation, which contains food for thought, is as follows : The figures of almost any lodge of a fair age would serve, but I shall take the Good Intent Lodge, M.U., 1.0.0. F., Auckland, as an example. During the quinquennium, the 225 members under age 40, paid in £2,225 and drew out £1054, 91 members between ages 40 and 60 paid in £857, and drew out £1147 in benefits. The 35 members over age 60 paid in £334 and drew out £1,067 in benefits. It is abundantly plain that these old members are using up the accumulations made when they were young and are leaving very little for posterity. Messrs R. Hannah and Co. insert a sale price list in this issue on pag« two. Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. will hold a stock sale at Tapawera to-day ; the stock sale at Pakawau has been postponed on account of the Colling- j wood show and races ; on Saturday next the firm will offer freehold property situated at East Takaka, on account of Mr A. J. Kemp. If- you require the highest grade butter made on the latest and most approved principles, ask for "Victory," which is sweet and palatab l^, and take no other.* All things must come to an end, and the Summer Clearance Sale at Mrs Anstice's ifl drawing near its close, but though this sale has been such Ji huge success, there : are crowd! more lines to clear, so we've marked them down still lower in price, and you've still another chance to make real worth-while savings by buying now. Get in to-day and see these latest bargains.* "A good name is better than great riches," and Lock, the Universal Provider, has a good name for giving first class value and for fair and square dealing. We append a portion of a poem sent to him:— Such, love as his, what tongue can fitly tell! Save he whose heart has owned its ■*• magic spell; With heaving breast, but hope as firm as rock, He breathed that name, th' inspiring name of "Lock." Straightway to Lock's with little cash, 'tis true, They wend their way, he looking rather blue. But wonders never cease (though quality of the best), All was so wondrous cheap, their doubts were soothed to rest. They're married now, and prattlers round them throng, As happy in their home. as summer day is long; Yet oft in loving circle they tell that little flock, How grateful still they feel to good old William Lock, The Complete Furnisher.