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If you feel ning your gards Old Age Pensions Bring Out Interesting Po FPORMER TIMMIN MAKE® BR childr« a gard plan fo ticul read Garden Notes from Horticultural Soc‘y second eof Series of Articles on Garden and Gardening by the Timmins Hcrticultural Society. _ "Planâ€" ning for a Garden." plied b sewhert Old ag: tell the t thing but : s or her ca 0 applicatic the Cochr ns Board. int An SULLY 111 imté the th 1V 1€ al of O A] mem}x h arde dist1 at inC i CGOG0ALIE ORD TN Po ints NT) FREDERICK H. ECKER President Note â€"The values used for stocks and for bonds not subject to amortization are those furnished by the National Convention of Insurance Commissioners. On the basis of market values, as of December 31, 1933, of stocks and of bonds not subject to amortization, the Total Assets are $3,837,723,706.21, the Contingency Reserve $19,962,514.82 and the Unassigned Funds (Surplus) $243,123,032.71. Between January Ist, 1929 and January 1Ist, 1934, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which insures the lives of more than 25,000,000 personsâ€"nearly oneâ€"fifth of the total populations of Canada and the United Stateeâ€"paid to its policyholders and their beneficiaries more than Two Billion Dollars ($2,000,000,000}. Liabilities Statutory. Policy Reserves Reserve for Dividends payable in 1934 upon. Industrial Policies Ordinary Policies Accident and Health Pollueq HROUGHOUT a period of almost unparalleled worldâ€" wide depression the institution of Life Ingurance on this continent has furnished an ‘example of achievement that wins admiration wherever it is understood. Assets Income in 1933 . Increase in Assets during 197»% McTrorourran Figures During the same period, its policyholders contributed, through their premium payments, toward the increase of more than All Other Liabilities Contingency Reserve . Unassigned Funds (Surplus) Dividends paid Policyholders _ p Total paid Policyholders and Beneficiaries (including Dividends) * 4 0n A C Statutory Policy Reserves Other Liabilities _ . Surplus, including Contmdency Reserve Insurance in Force Total Reserve for Dividends Assets Insurance issued in Canada in 1933 . Insurance in force in Canada at This is a mutual Company. There are no Stock holders. Ordinary Industrial Group Ordinary Industrial... .." .. : . \k Group (excluding increased The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company presents figures from its Annual Statement for 1933 and makes comparisons which show how the Company has carried on during the five difficult years since 1928 including b (In accordance with the Annual Statement filed with the New York State Insurance Departmeant) THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTIMMINS, ONTARIO Canadian Head Office: OTTAWA end of 1933 $580,219,141 363,058,040 64,936,197 Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1933 §$45,232,899.00 48,188,553.00 1,809,000.00 Canada since 18 $116,438,1 39 95,524, 241 1,676,474 $3,860,761,191.39 §$3,358,462,467 .00 $3,860,761,191.39 8$71,233,003.33 91,388,766.11 Third Vice President and Manafger for Canada 120,945,239.68 43,000,0080.00 243,1233,032.71 CANADIAN BUSINESS $1,008,213,378 Investments in C 95,230,452.00 Howme Office: NEW Y §213,638,854 During the year 1928 During the year 1933 67,904,719.32 101,790,536.56 HARRY D. WRIG HT December 31, 1928 $2,695,475,965.64 16,371,956,002.00 2,574,118,707.00 161,281,255.71 160,075,999.93 283,396,831.69 Insurance: Gompany Policies Payments to Canadian Policyholders in 1933 Investments in Canada Dominion and Dominion Guaranteed Bonds oo ok. % Provincial, Municipal, Provinâ€" cially Guaranteed and Muâ€" nicipally Guaranteed Bonds All other investments These figures, of one company alone, are striking evidence of the reliance which the people of Canada and the United States place on the security and protection of life insurance. Ordinaty .. . . Industrial . . . Group (certificates One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000) in the assets for future distribution to themselves and their beneficiaries. After payment, during that period, of more than Four Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars ($450,000,000) by way of dividends to policyholders, the Company‘s surplus was increased by more than One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000). Life Insurance is the most effective and satisfactory means of providing for the future of one‘s self and one‘s dependents. Paidâ€"for Life Insurance Issued, Revived and Increased in 1933, $3,174,994,475. Ordinary, $1,583,300,706; Industrial, $1,505,470,439; Group (excluding Increased) $86,223,330. Life Insurance in force Ordinary Insurance Accident and Health Insurance in force Principal Sum Benefit Weekly Indemnity . Dividends Paid to Policyholders to date plus those declared for 1934 . payable weekly or monthly Group Insurance . . . Total Insurance in force Policies in Force (including 1,352,614 Group Certificates) Industrial Insurance (premiums in force ling December 31, 1933 Increase in Five Years $3,860,761,191.39 $1,165,285,225.75 18,802,984,818.00 in Canada 3,358,462,467.00 216,175,691.68 286,123,032.71 572,679,580.85 All of its assets are held for the benefit of its Policyholders. V ice President and General C £51,200,0 19 111,4539,189.60 83,574,198.71 397, 399 2,215,006 36,581 Total for Five Years 450,608,045.72 2,319,359,211.70 2,431,028,816.00 §$246,233,498.03 984,343,760.00 54,894,432.97 126,047,032.78 §$30,756,783.92 $18,802,984,818.00 $9,936,236,416.00 $1,213,622,700.00 12,536,918.00 6,424,469,056.00 2,442,279,346.00 $918,.472,210.17 2,648,955 ,660 » €) Li 1