T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society

The T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society was an insurance company that operated in Australia and New Zealand. [ [http://www.isi.org.nz/Name_changes.htm Investment Savings and Insurance Association (ISI) New Zealand] ] The 'T & G' stood for 'Temperance & General'. [ [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/a/3/9/doc/a39798.shtml State Library of Victoria: T & G (Temperance & General) Mutual Life Assurance Society Building] ] The company was founded in 1876, [ [http://www.gabr.net.au/bib/BAPU00259.htm Guide to Australian Business Records] ] emerging from the Assurance branch of the Independent Order of Rechabites. The branch was severed from the I.O.R Rechabite Lodge after six years of operations. [ [http://www.oztion.com.au/vshops/item.aspx?itemid=2147894 Commemoration Centenary & History of T&G Mutual Life Society] ]

In 1983 the T&G Society amalgamated with the National Mutual Life Association. [http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/heritage/trails_cp05.asp Townsville City Council: T & G BUILDING] ]

Offices

The T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society engaged in a program of expanding its offices in the 1920s and 1930s throughout Australia and New Zealand. The buildings had distinctive characteristics, being multi-storey buildings on corner sites with a tower and signage with the society's name.

Cities with T & G buildings:
*Australia
** Sydney [ [http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Article.aspx?id=1179601457835&index=NationalIndex&headline=Age%20of%20elegance Sydney Morning Herald - "Age of elegance" Author: Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Charles Pickett] ]
** Melbourne [ [http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Buildings/TandG.asp The White Hat Guide to the T & G Buildings] ]
** Brisbane [ [http://www.sandgate.net/~pdunn/locations/t&gbldg.htm T & G BUILDING - CORNER OF QUEEN AND ALBERT STREETS, BRISBANE, QLD] ]
** Adelaide [ [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=tgbuilding-adelaide-australia Emporis: Adelaide T&G Building] ]
** Hobart [ [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23504221 National Library of Australia: Murray St & T&G [building] from St Davids [picture] : Hobart, Tasmania] ]
** Geelong [Begg, Peter. (1990). "Geelong - The First 150 Years". Globe Press. ISBN 0-9592863-5-7]
** Horsham [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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** Mildura [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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** Townsville [ [http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/heritage/_propDetails.asp?PropertyNo=3330 Townsville's Heritage: Former T&G Building] ]
** Newcastle [ [http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/asp/pdf/Appendix%20R-Visual%20Impact%20Assessment-Verge.pdf VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT for the Peninsula Apartments - 67 Watt Street, Newcastle] ]
** Albury [ [http://www.realcommercial.com.au/commercial-real-estate/5279383 First Floor Suite 18 / 553-555 Dean Street, "T&G Building", Albury] ]
** Wagga Wagga

* New Zealand
** Auckland [ [http://www.esapts.co.nz/corporate.html Elliott Street Apartments - Hotel Accommodation Auckland] ]
** Napier [ [http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/pages/t_g_apartment/ T&G Apartment - Napier] ]
** Palmerston North [ [http://citylibrary.pncc.govt.nz/user/file/199/Former%20T%20&%20G%20Building.pdf Former T & G Building 16-22 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North] ]

ee also

* T & G Building, Geelong
* T & G Building, Brisbane

References

* Shirley Thomas, "T & G : yours for life : the history of T & G Mutual Life Society Limited 1876-1976", T. & G. Mutual Life Society Limited