GARRISON SIGNALLERS' CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 2

GARRISON SIGNALLERS' CLUB.

__4 AKN'UAL METING. The first annual" meeting of ithe'-Wellingto* 1 Garrison ■ Signallers'' Clnb was held .at thl Garrison ; Hall, . Buckle Streeti last evening,. Captain J., E. ...Duigan, Chief ;6atrootwr- o <fc il - Engineer. Services,, presiding.. The annual report of.. the committee. Ktatc<i, inter alia, that during the year aii attempt • was made to get the signalling dctachmente or < V the various companies to parade aa a eolriposito ■ signalling unit. .The.Officor Commanding the .« District (Lieut.-Colonel Banchop) expressed himself as being in favour of the idea, sub- ; joct to the acquiescence of the officers commanding the companies concerned. As tha' latter were not favourably, disposed to the 6cheme, it was abandoned. • The committee ■ congratulated members upon , the attainment ,; of this :main object, the. institution of .an.... annual challenge cUp,'. coinpetition .'fftr 6ignal-;. ling, which should have a healthy influence on the training of the signalled. The financial statement showed ■ that- the receipts balanced the expenditure, there being to credit in", stamps, the eudi of 9d. sterling. .. , The report and balance-sheet were adopted. •. It was decided! (1) That-Sereeant-Major ; Browning -be the secretary for the ensuing . , ' vear; (2) that the executive ■ committee con- . sist of the sergeants of tho signalling equiuU and 'sections! (3) that Liout, Hulbert bo appointed vice-chairman. , Captain Duigan, in a brief address, urfed . .., the club to foster its aims,'and give proof of its utility by public demonstrations. All the battalion signallers should, he said, be paraded, / and a cou?se of .lectures arranged for clnb nights. Lieut. Hulbert was instructed to propare a draft syllabus of loctorcs.' ' ' ■ . The secretary was instructed to draw up i conditions for the next Bimalling; , It was decided that- tho challenge cup be presented by the Officer Commanding the Difr. •. triot,. at tho annual-club social, the, data: of,, which will bo fixed later, and that a signalling demonstration (day and night conditions) bo organised by the executive committee. ■