page_title: T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society
hierarchical_section_title: T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society
caption_attribution_description: Former T &amp; G Mutual Life Society building. Wagga Wagga
context_page_description: The T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society was an insurance company that operated in Australia and New Zealand. The 'T & G' stood for 'Temperance & General'. The company was founded in Victoria in 1876, emerging from the Assurance branch of the Independent Order of Rechabites with 132 policies. The branch was severed from the I.O.R. after six years of operations.
  By 1920, the Society had 385,000 policies and by 1930 had grown to become the largest ordinary-industrial life society operating solely within Australia and New Zealand, with 737,000 policies, with an income of nearly 4 million pounds, and assets totaling over 16 million pounds. By 1952 the income had increased to 16 million pounds and funds to 86 million pounds.
  In 1983 the T&G Society amalgamated with the National Mutual Life Association. which was itself purchased by AXA, a French multinational, in the 1990s.
context_section_description: The T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society was an insurance company that operated in Australia and New Zealand. The 'T & G' stood for 'Temperance & General'. The company was founded in Victoria in 1876, emerging from the Assurance branch of the Independent Order of Rechabites with 132 policies. The branch was severed from the I.O.R. after six years of operations.
  By 1920, the Society had 385,000 policies and by 1930 had grown to become the largest ordinary-industrial life society operating solely within Australia and New Zealand, with 737,000 policies, with an income of nearly 4 million pounds, and assets totaling over 16 million pounds. By 1952 the income had increased to 16 million pounds and funds to 86 million pounds.
  In 1983 the T&G Society amalgamated with the National Mutual Life Association. which was itself purchased by AXA, a French multinational, in the 1990s.
caption: T & G building in Wagga Wagga
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