Examples from literature

• Friendly societies have largely taken to investing their surplus funds in loans to members on the building society principle. 
• In Victoria, Australia, a crisis occurred, in which many building societies suffered severely. 
• It is difficult to over-estimate the social value of the work that has been done by building societies. 
• The colonist is very fond of living in his own house and on his own bit of ground, and building societies and the extensive mortgage system which prevails enable him easily to gratify this desire. 
• The result was to weaken confidence in building societies generally, and this was very marked in the rapid decline of the amount of the capital of the incorporated building societies.