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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 60, 3 May 1873, Page 16

Societies. AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC BENEFIT SOCIETY. ■{Registered under the "Friendly Societies' Acts " of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand.") ( DT. JOSEPH'S BRANCH, No. 73, which is under the authority of the Executive Directory, Melbourne, meets in St. Joseph's School-room every Mondaj fortnight, at 8 -p.m. The Entrance Fee and rates of Subscription will be found to compare favorably with those charged by other societies, and are as ; moderate as practicable, having due regard to •■the benefits secured. The synopsis of these •are as follows t — " A Benefit Member receives during illness £1 per week for twenty-six consecutive weeks, 15s. for the next 'thirteen weeks, and 10s. for a further period of twenty-six weeks ; on death of wife, £10; at his own death, his relatives receive £20. He has medical attendance and medicine tfor himself and family immediately on joining ; if a single man, with a widowed mother and brothers or •sisters under 18 years of age, he has rmedical attendance and medicine for them. A member removing has a .clearance, which admits him into the branch of the Society in the locality to which he moves. Honorary and Life Honorary Members are provided for, and may, on payment of a small weekly contribution, secure medical attendance." Catholics should lose no time in joining the Society. FRED. J. BUNNY, Hon. Sec. H. A. C. B. S. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. "TN Order to get the Society out of DEBT» and place it on a firm footing, the Mein"bers have resolved to give a GRAND CONCERT, In the Head-Quarters' Drill Shed, Octagon, ON MONDAY EVENING, 26th MAY. Several lady and gentlemen amateurs have kindly consented to Sing. A Recitation, Aytoun's "Execution of Montrose," will also be given by a Member of the Society. Being a young Society, struggling for a position, the Members with confidence rely upon the generosity of the public generally to support tbem handsomely. upon this their first Appeal, FRED. J. BUNNY, Hon. Sec.