Pink with purple printing Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co Ltd Certificate of Insurance, 0759 for 1968 Austin Utility. Purple MRD 3 Feb 1967 70 Mail stamped on the left side. Regulations printed on the paper.person, receipts, j w swatton, j w swatton collection, mercantile mutual insurance company limited, j a mckie, w cowling

Pink receipt from the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Limited, 9296 certifying that the policey has been renewed for an Austin Utility and dated 5/2/68. Black MMICL logo in the top left corner. Cost 30.64.person, receipts, j w swatton, j w swatton collection, mercantile mutual insurance company limited, m r bates, j a mckie, w cowling

Pink receipt from the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Limited, 9296, indicating theat the policy has been renewed for an Austin Utility and dated 16/2/67. Black MMICL logo in the top left corner. Cost $31.17.person, receipts, j w swatton, j w swatton collection, mercantile mutual insurance company limited, j a mckie, w cowling

Pink Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co Ltd Certificate of Insurance, 33250 for for Austin Utility. Red Renewal stamped at the top and purple MRD 2 Feb 1966 70 Mail stamped on the left side. Regulations printed on the paper. Amount £7/2/6.person, receipts, j w swatton, j w swatton collection, mercantile mutual insurance co ltd, w cowling, j a mckie, e a?hans

Pink receipt certifying that the Policy has been renewed for the Austin Util. Cost £13/12/8. Dated 5 Feb 1965.Black MMICL Estd 1875 logo in the top left corner.person, receipts, j w swatton, j w swatton collection, mercantile mutual insurance co ltd, w cowling

William Anthony Theodore (19.3.1917 - 5.1.2007).William 'Bill' Theodore - Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd. fire insurance policy for the contents at 119 Honeysuckle Street, Bendigo; for the years 15 May 1954-55. bill theodore, william theodore

Certificate of Registration of Motor Car for Mr J Swatton for the period ending 10 Feb 67. Certificate is for a Grn. 56 Austn Util Reg No HCO637. Annual Fee £13/10/0. Certificate haws blue printing on the front with a red dotted stripe on the right side. Printing on the back is black. Third party Insurancer was Mercantile Mutual Ins Coy.person, receipts, j w swatton, j w swatton collection, motor car act 1958, r h arnold, mercantile mutual ins coy

Printed account from Finucane's Garage & Service Station in the name of ? Clayton. Items, prices and total amount handwritten on account. Pale blue receipt attached. Beige duty stamp attached with Oa/c 9/3/38 written on it. Account printed in black and red.document, w. babidge collection - finucane's garage & service station, ? clayton, international harvester coy., gaston farm machinery and scoops, gibbon reversible disc plow, beg e harvester, mercantile mutual insurance coy

Photo by Chris Wurr 18 September 1971 of: 1 - 42 from George Hotel balcony. In the background is a bus, the Mercantile Mutual Insurance, Hoyts Theatre with a for sale sign, the CBC Bank, 3BA, Coutts, Wards and a Milk bar. 2 - 42 through the cemetery gates with many people boarding the tram. In the background is the tram stop shelter.Yields information about tram 42 and its use during Sept. 1971.Digital - Black and white image - set of 2tramways, trams, lydiard st north, tram 42, shelter

The pews (18 small and 1 large) with 3 fronts were donated by Mrs E.W. Outhwaite in memory of her father, Nicholas Maine, who died in 1915. Nicholas Maine biography was published in the Australian on 11 September 1915 : "Nicholas Maine, whose paternal grandfather was rector of the Church of England and Ireland, parish of Dunaghy, County Antrim, came of a family of very considerable repute as merchants in Belfast. He was born at Ballymena on New Year's Day, 1826, and received his earlier education at the Diocesan School, Ballymena, and at Dr. Bryce's Academy, Belfast. After a three years' apprenticeship in a merchant's office, in Belfast, he ventured forth into the world as supercargo in a vessel belonging to one of his brothers, and so performing two voyages to Brazil. Ashore once more, he joined a broker's office in Liverpool, and whilst there was specially chosen out of a large staff as the man to take charge of a fleet of ships on a guano quest on the coast of Patagonia. Having determined on a suitable rendezvous for his ships, he sailed for the River Plate in a handy vessel, and from Monte Video south- wards minutely searched and examined the coast, chiefly in boats, as far as Santa Cruz, near the Straits of Magellan. At Sea Bear's Bay, in lat. 48deg. S., he landed his men, and pitched his tents, &c. After 10 months of extreme hardship and risky adventure on the coast in open boats, and loss of many men from scurvy, he loaded up all the ships sent to him, and returned to the River Plate. While there he met Captain Hotham, R.N., of H.M.S. Gordon (afterwards Governor of Victoria), and also saw Garibaldi, who was then making himself famous by his daring adventures against the enemy, though with inadequate means. (There was war going on in the river at the time.) From Monte Video he returned to Brazil, where he opened a direct trade with Russia, by shipping the first cargo, of sugar and cotton from Pernambuco to St. Petersburg. For so doing the Emperor Nicholas allowed his vessel (the Urgent), belonging to his brothers, trading under he name of N. Maine and Sons, to enter Russia free of port charges. Shortly after this Nicholas Maine went ashore, spending three years in a Liverpool brokers office, when, sailing again as super cargo, he went on a trading voyage to Chili and Peru. He was present at Panama for six months during the rush to California, and crossed the isthmus on muleback and by canoe, a severe journey in those days. Thence he went to Jamaica, his ship's company carrying with them the cholera, which decimated the population. Then home again, visiting the United States by the way. After another year in Liverpool, he sailed again for Brazil, at one day's notice, bought a cargo of coffee at Rio Janeiro, took it to San Francisco, and settled there, where he had three years of a most exciting life — 1851-2-3 —also making speculative voyages down the coast to Mexico and Nicaragua, at which latter place he took the fever and so on to the South Sea Islands, where he suffered shipwreck, and thence on to Chili. He arrived in Melbourne from New Zealand in 1854; made one more voyage to Chili (his last venture at sea), and on his return sold his vessel. After refitting a dismasted clipper ship, called the Flying Arrow for his brother Crawford, with what was considered in those days unusual dispatch, when the port had not many conveniences for the purpose, he quietly went again into harness ashore. He managed Mr. T. S. Martin's large business in Melbourne for five years, till he broke down, from excessive work and anxiety. After winding up the business, he sailed for England in 1862, and idled at home, in Italy, and other parts of the Continent till, his health being restored, he returned to Melbourne in 1867, and went to Queensland to buy into a station along with his brother and others; but, not being satisfied, came back to Melbourne, and began to work as a mercantile broker. Soon after this he was induced to apply for the resident secretaryship of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, and got it in 1868, though, at the time, several professionals thought him unfit, and prophesied failure. He retired after a long term of eminently profitable business transactions in 1895, owing to a rule of the society to retire secretaries at the age of seventy. He accordingly left on the 1st January, 1896, after twenty-seven years' service unbroken by a single holiday, save for a trip to Europe in 1891. A letter was written him by Sir Joseph Abbott, chairman of the board, in which he said:- "I need hardly assure you that the board is extremely sorry that the, society is obliged to lose your services, which have been so highly appreciated by us during your long connection with the society," and enclosed a grateful resolution passed by the board." Margaret Isabella Maine was born in 1871 and was the only daughter of Nicholas Maine. In 1897, she married Edward Walter Outhwaite, a layer from New South Wales who had studied at the University of Melbourne. Edward was the brother of Arthur Grenbry Outhwaite, husband of artist Ida Rentoul. Margaret and Edward had three children: a son, Maine Outhwaite and two daughters, Helen Margaret and Jocelyn. The pews on the left side of the nave have been moved to make room to a baby grand piano (date tbc.) therefore 2 of them have to be moved elsewhere in the mission and the pew front has been brought backwards..gifts, st peter chapel, pews, edward walter outhwaite, margaret isabella outhwaite nee maine (1871-1964), arthur grenbry outhwaite (1875-1938), nicholas maine (1826-1915), heritage listed, gifts-1917, kneelers, genuflection, praying