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MFS Managed Sectors Fund
MFS Government Mortgage Fund
MFS World Asset Allocation Fund
MFS International Growth Fund
MFS New Discovery Fund
MFS International Growth and Income Fund
MFS Research Growth and Income Fund
MFS/Foreign & Colonial Emerging Markets Equity Fund
MFS Equity Income Fund
MFS Alabama Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Research International Fund
MFS Arkansas Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Strategic Growth Fund
MFS California Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Emerging Growth Fund
MFS Florida Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Large Cap Growth Fund
MFS Georgia Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Intermediate Income Fund
MFS Maryland Municipal Bond Fund
MFS High Income Fund
MFS Massachusetts Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Mississippi Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund
MFS New York Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Total Return Fund
MFS North Carolina Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Research Fund
MFS Pennsylvania Municipal Bond Fund
MFS World Total Return Fund
MFS South Carolina Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Utilities Fund
MFS Tennessee Municipal Bond Fund
MFS World Equity Fund
MFS Virginia Municipal Bond Fund
MFS World Governments Fund
MFS West Virginia Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Value Fund
MFS Municipal Income Fund
MFS Strategic Income Fund
MFS Growth Opportunities Fund
MFS World Growth Fund
MFS Government Securities Fund
MFS Bond Fund
Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund
MFS Limited Maturity Fund
MFS Government Limited Maturity Fund
MFS Municipal Limited Maturity Fund
Massachusetts Investors Trust
MFS Union Standard Equity Fund
SUPPLEMENT TO THE CURRENT PROSPECTUS
This Supplement describes certain changes, effective immediately, to each Fund's
Prospectus.
CHANGES TO SALES CHARGE WAIVER CATEGORIES. In Appendix A to the Prospectus, the
following new subsection is added under Article II (Waivers of Class A Sales
Charges), which sets forth the various circumstances in which the initial sales
charge imposed on purchases of Class A shares is waived:
5. Bank Trust Departments and Law Firms
Shares acquired by certain bank trust departments or law firms
acting as trustee or manager for trust accounts which have entered
into an administrative services agreement with MFD and are
acquiring such shares for the benefit of their trust account
clients.
The date of this Supplement is February 1, 1998.
