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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 123, 3 September 1875, Page 16

HIBERNIAN- AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC BENEFIT SOCIETY. (Registered under the Friendly Societies Act of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, New Zealand, and South Australia), and at present NUMBERING ONE HUNDRED AND TEN BRANCHES, AND ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED MEMBERS. CtjEaeances are Granted at no extra Charges to Members. THE SOCIETY IS FOUNDED UPON THE FINANCIAL ' BASIS OF OTHER BENEFIT SOCIETIES. THE ENTRANCE FEES AND RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Will bo found to compare ' favorably -with those CHARG-ED BY OTHER SOCIETIES,, And are as Moderate as practicable, having due regard to tho benefits secured, a synopsis of which is subjoined : — A Benefit Member receives during illness .£1 per week for twenty-six consecutive weeks, 15s for the next thirteen weeks, and 10s for further period of thirteen weeks ; on death of wife J3lO, at his own death his relatives receive .£2O. He has medical attendance and medicine for himself and family immediately on joining. If a single man with a widowed mother, and brothers and sisters (under 18 years of age), he has medical attendance and medicine for them. A Member removing "can have a clearance which will admit him into any branch of the Society in the locality to which, he may remove. Honorary and Life Honorary Members are provided for, and may, on payment of a small weekly contribution," secure medical attendance. The Society is also for the purpose (as its name indicates) of cherishing the memory of Ireland, and promoting the religious, social, and intellectual condition of the members. . Any person desirous of having a branch opened shall make application to a branch, verified by signatures of not less than thirteen persons not members, who wish to become members thereof ; also the signature of the resident Priest, if available, and at the same time forward the sum of 10s each as proposition fees. Branches arc established at Invercargill, Lawrence, Dunedin, Naseby, Oamaru, Clmstchurch, Greymouth, Charleston, Addisoiis, Brighton, Greenstone, Waimea, Hokitika, Wellington, Reef ton, Onehunga, Olabuhu, Auckland, Napier, Akaroa, and Lyttelton.

BUSINESS NOTICE. I BEG- to notify to my numerous Friends and the Public generally that I have this day * RECOMMENCED BUSINESS AS A WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRODUCE AND PROVISION MERCHANT. Temporary Stores (ponding the building of new promises in Princcs-strcet South) — CORNER OF noTE AND STAFFORD STREETS, , Opposite the new Clrurch of England. JOHN (3-RIFFEN. July 26, 1875.