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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 24

PUBLIC NOTICES. AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Established 1849. (Incorporated in Australia.) SPECIAL MEETING OF MEMBERS. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD, I, CHARLES MOUNTSIDE MARTIN, Secretary of Australian Mutual Provident Society do hereby pursuant to Bylaw 36 of the Society’s Bylaws call and convene a Special meeting of the Society to be-held at the Offices of the Society 87 Pitt street Sydney New South Wales on FRIDAY the FIFTH day of MARCH 1937 at 2 p.m. to consider and if thought fit to pass and approve the following resolution;— THAT the Society’s Bylaws be amended as follows: — 1. By inserting at the end of Bylaw 10 the following words; — "but the Board may act although its number be temporarily reduced below seven." 2. By omitting from Bylaw 14 the words "and the Director so appointed shall hold office until the hour of noon on the date of the next Annual Meeting.” 3. By omitting Bylaw 15 and inserting in lieu thereof the following new Bylaw 15:— 15. In each year the Directors due to retire shall be determined as follows; — If no Director shall have been appointed under Bylaw 14 during the period extending from a day thirtynine clear days before the date of the Annual Meeting held in the previous year to a day forty clear days before the Annual Meeting to be held in the then current year both days inclusive the two Directors who have been longest In office shall be due to retire. If one Director shall have been appointed under Bylaw 14 during such period he and the Director who has been longest in office shall be due to retire, and if two or more Directors have been appointed under Bylaw 14 during such period they alone shall be due to retire. As between two or more Directors who have been in office for any equal length of time the decision as to which of them shall be due to retire under the provisions of this Bylaw shall failing mutual agreement rest with the Board. Every Director due to retire in terms of this Bylaw shall be eligible for re-election and subject to Bylaw 21 his seat shall be filled by ballot as hereinafter provided. A Director due to retire for the purposes of this Bylaw shall continue in office until the first publication of the advertisement required by Bylaw 20 or by Bylaw 21 declaring his successor or himself elected as the case may be. For the purpose of this Bylaw the length of time a Director has been in office shall be computed from his last election or appointment. 4. By Inserting at the end of Bylaw 17 the following paragraph:— (f) When two or more persons are members by virtue of any policy the member whose name appears first in the policy or in any assignment thereof (as the case may be) if claiming to vote or if not claiming to vote then the next in succession and claiming to vote shall be the person entitled to vote in respect of such policy. 5. By omitting from Bylaw 21 the words "as there are vacant seats" and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures “as the number of Directors due to retire under Bylaw 15.” 6. By adding after Bylaw 21 the following new Bylaw 21a:— 21a. Should any duly qualified candidate for election (whether he is or is not a Director) die during the period commencing on a day thirtynlne clear days before any Annual Meeting and ending on the day of the first publication of the advertisement required by Bylaw 20 or by Bylaw 21 as the case may be or become ineligible for election within the same period then in any such case, (a) Any ballot then pending for such election shall not be proceeded with and shall be of no effect. (b) The Board shall as soon as practicable extend the respective times fixed by the Bylaws for giving notice for candidature and for the taking of a ballot and the Chairman shall thereupon cause an advertisement to be inserted in the several newspapers provided for in Bylaw 17 (a) notifying such extension. The Board shall allow a period of at least ten clear days between the first publication of such advertisement and the last day thereby appointed for giving notice of candidature. (c) Should there be more candidates than there are Directors due to retire (i) Notice of the intended taking of a ballot or of another ballot as the case may be and of the names of the candidates shall be given in accordance with the provisions of Bylaw 17 (a). (ii) The provisions of Bylaws 17 (a) (c) (e) (f). 18. 19, 20, and 21 shall apply to such ballot. (iii) A voting paper shall be supplied to any member who has applied for a voting paper for the ineffective ballot and to any other member who applies therefor. (iv) Voting shall be on the scale set out by Bylaw 45 (b). AND I further give notice that if the said Resolution be passed or approved by the requisite majority at the said Meeting a confirmatory Meeting will be held at the Society’s said office on Monday, the Twenty-second day of MARCH, 1937, at 2 p.m., for the purpose of finally passing confirming the said Resolution and I hereby call and convene such Meeting accordingly. For the information of members of the Society the following Bylaws are here set forth:— Bylaw 10. —The general management of the Society (subject to the provisions contained in the "Australian Mutual Provident Society’s Act, 1910,” and in these Bylaws) shall be vested in a Board of seven Directors. Bylaw 14.—Any vacancy in the Board occasioned by any cause other than retirement under Bylaw 15 shall be filled by the Board at a meeting convened for that purpose, and the Director so appointed shall hold office until the hour of noon on the date of the next Annual Meeting. Bylaw 15.—At the hour of noon on the date of each Annual Meeting, if there shall have been no Director appointed under Bylaw 14 since the last Annual Meeting, the two Directors who shall have been longest in office shall retire. If one Director shall have been appointed under Bylaw 14 then he and the Director who shall have been longest in office shall retire, and if two or more Directors shall have been appointed under Bylaw 14 then they alone shall retire In the event of several Directors having been in office for the same period of time the decision as to which of them shall retire under the provisions of this Bylaw shall, falling mutual agreement, rest with the Board. Every Director retiring on terms of this By-law shall be eligible for re-election. Bylaw 36.—N0 member shall be eligible for election as a Director unless notice in writing of his being a candidate shall have been given to the Board or to the Secretary at least thirty clear days previous to the date of the Annual Meeting. Bylaw 17.—Directors shall be elected by ballot as follows: (a) Notice of the intended taking of the ballot and of the names of the candidates shall be given by public advertisement not less than twice in two newspapers published in each of the States of the Commonwealth of Australia and also in two newspapers published in the Dominion of New Zealand, the first of such advertisements to be published at least fourteen clear days before the day fixed for taking such ballot. . (c) There shall be kept at the Head Office. each Branch Office, and each District Office of the Society a local register of Policies. Any member may vote personally by ballot at the office on the register of which the Policy entitling him to vote is entered, or may record his vote by forwarding to such Office a signed voting paper as hereinafter provided for. Bylaw 20.—Each Returning Officer shall, on completion of the counting of the votes report to the Chairman the result of the polling for the several candidates, and the Chairman shall thereupon cause an advertisement to be inserted in the several newspapers provided for in Bylaw 17 (a) declaring the result of such election. and the declaration of the Chairman in this regard shall be conclusive. Bylaw 21.—Should there only be as many candidates as there are vacant seats