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                    [0] => This series consisted of records relating to registration, rules (new and amended), annual returns and audited financial statements and reports in managing of friendly societies.
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            [id] => 581
            [idSort] => 581
            [name] => Friendly Societies registration files
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                    [custom5] => Foolscap files, containing various correspondence relating to such matters as valuation, rules, dissolution or miscellaneous matters.
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                            [0] => 10049
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	Controlling Series Not known. Presumably indexes are/were kept by the controlling agency.
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                    [normalizedValue] => 1887-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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	This series consisted of records relating to registration, rules (new and amended),  annual returns and audited financial statements and reports in managing of friendly societies.

	The traditional friendly society is a member owned association set up to provide financial and other assistance to members and their families in times of need, principally sickness, old age and death. Its operations are based on insurance principles and mutual sharing of risk, with benefits being paid from funds accumulated from the contributions of members.

	This series seems to have around 1915 when files relating to friendly societies matters, and to trade unions' matters, were seemingly taken out of series 622 and top numbered into two new series, of which this is one.

	

	The papers transferred in 1996 retain their original order and requests for items from that accession (W4787) should include Agency code, Series number, record number [ie district & lodge identifier] and date of the record.

	The Companies Office, which took over the responsibility of managing friendly societies since c.1997, launched  an electronic register for all corporate bodies On 1 May 2002. From that date, corporate registrations were completed on line and a couple of years later no new paper files were made.
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                            [name] => Wellington repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Multiple number classification reflecting the different orders of friendly societies and thereafter the different divisions within order.
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	No restrictions
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