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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5939, 18 September 1890, Page 1

Capt. A. Davidson ~ .. .. 15 W. Carswell 5 M. Hingston .. .. .. 5 J. D. Ramsdeu .. .. .. 5 W. Gr. Jerram 5 Temtohauy Officbs: CHAMBER OF-COMMERCE, NAPIER. Whero Members will be enrolled. FRFE ASSOCIATION OF EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN OF HAWKE'S BAY. RULES. NAMB. 1. The name of iho association shall bo "The Free Association of Employers and Workmen of Hawke's B»y." OB.rECTB. 2. The objects of the association shall be— (<i). To enrol all olassee of the community in one association for the purpose of establishing permanont and mutually beneficial relations between all classes of employers and workers. (l>). To improve tho condition of all classes of workers. (c). To procure employment at the best current rate of wages for all working members of this association. (<!). To provide a fund from which assistance may be given to any of the workers who arc members of tho association and who may bo injured by nucident or otherwise in tho course of their employment. (c). To establish a Board of Conciliation, composed of both employers and workers, for the settlement of all disputes between employers and workers, or botween one employer and another when such dispute relates to any question affecting the workers of such employers or between one worker and another or between ono body of workers and another. j (f). To establish a fund for the protect'on of members. (</). To affiliate with similar Associations throughout tho colony, aud generally to secure the co-operation of employers and workers with the view of promoting the well-being of workers and the uninterrupted progress of trade and commerce. MBSEBEKSIIir. 3. Every person who signs the declaration at the end of theso rules shall be a member of tho association. 4. The entrance fee for subscribing members shall be £1, and the minimum annual subscription shall be £2. Subscribing members are expected to contribute to the guarantee or other fund in proportion to the stake they hold in the colony. No enipl'iyer ahatl be allowed to join tho association except n? a subscribing member. n. Mombers shall consist of subscribing , members and non-subscribing members. Every member who shall be elected in terms of Rule No. 8 and who shall pay tho entrance fee and aunual subscription shall bo a subscribing member, and every member who shall bo so elected and who shall make to tho funds of the association a donation of £'i-50 or shall under his guarantee | have paid calls to that amount shall be a i subscribing member during his life without further paymont, and every worker who shall sign tho said declaration shall be a non-subscribing member on whom no entrance fee or subscription shall be levied, but any worker may become a subscribing member upon payment of the entrance fee and annual subscription. 6. Any member may retire from the association at any time on delivering to the secretary a written notice signed by himself or his Attorney, aud thereupon he shall cease to bo a member and shall have no interest in or claim upon tho funds of tho association. 7. Any member who shall have purported to guarantee a specific amount to the Protection Fund shall be liable to the full extent of such guarantee for three (3) years from the 4th day of September IS9O, although he may have retired in terms of I the preceding rule in the same manner as if j ho continued to be a subscribing member of the association. For the purposes of this rule guarantees shall subsist for periods of three years. The first triennial period shall terminate on the 4th day of September 1893. 8. Any person, firm, or company desiring to become a subscribing member shall be proposed by the chairman at the first meeting of the Council held after such person, firm, or company shall have signed the said declaration, and if elected by a majority of the members of such Council then present shall becomo a subscribing member. Such election shall bo by ballot. 9. Tho secretary may provisionally admit as a subscribing member any person, firm, or company who shall have signed the said declaration and paid the entrance fee and annual subscription, and such person, firm, or company shall have all the powers and privileges until elected of a subscribing member except the power of voting at any meeting of the subscribing members until elected in terras of Rule No. 8. KASTAQEsrEirr. 10. Tho business of tho association shall I bo conducted by a Council consisting of a president, a vice-president, and a Council of thirty who shall bo eleoted annually at the annual general meeting by the subscribing members from tho subscribing members, and who shall hold office until the appointment of their successors. In addition thereto life members shall have a permanent seat on the Council. 11. The president or in his absence the vice-president shall preside at all meetings of the Council and of the association. Should both bo absent those present may appoint any member of the Council present at the meeting of the Council or of the association to preside at such meeting. 12. A general meeting of the Association shall l<e held at least once in every year on the first Thursday of the month of September, and at suoh other time or times as the Council may consider necessary, and the Counoil shall be bound to oall a general meeting when so required in writing by not lees than twenty subscribing membora of this association, who shall deliver their requisition to the secretary and state therein tho object for which the meeting is required. Ten days notice at least shall be given by advertisement of any general meeting, but the Council may, if any question demands urgency call a general meeting by giving such notice as it thinks proper. 13. At least ten members of the Council shall at all times be elected from those of the subscribing members who or whose firms shall have signed a a guaranteo to tho Protection Fund of £25 or more. The local agont or manager of any company or corporation which shall have joined the association shall be considered a subscribing member in the same way as if he had personally subscribed in place of such company or corporation, except that he shall not be personally liable for any amount guaranteed by such company or corporation. 11. All members of the Council shall be entitled to take part in the discussion of any matter brought before tho Council and to vote thereon, subject to the exception mentioned in Rule No. '12. 15. The president, vice-president, and nil other elected members of the Council shall retire annually, but shall bo eligible for reelection. IC. The Council may by ballot fill up any vacancies caused by death, resignation, or otherwise amongst its office-bearers and members. Persons appointed to fill such vacancies shall hold office, however, only tor tho remainder of the term for which the persons whose Boats they fill would have occupied the same respectively. If. At all meetings of the Council seven shall form a quorum, and it all general meetings of the'association twenty subscribing members must be present to form a quorum. 18. There shall be a secretary to tho association, to bo appointed by the Council at such salary as the Council may determine. Tho Council may remove tho Secretary at pleasure. 19. Tho rules of this association maybe altered nt an extraordinary general meoting called for that purpose by _ tho Council, provided at least ton days notice is given of the proposed alteration and of the holding of such miMstinir. 20. The funds of tho association shall be paid into a Bank to the credit of the assoolation, and the Bunk account shall be operated upon us tho Council .shall determine. 21. 'JJho funds of the association shall ho oxpendivl :is tho Counoil may from time to time by resolution determine, subject as to the guarnntoe fund to tho provisions of Rule 22. I'l. The Council shall from time to timt miiko .inch culls upon members of tho association for subscriptions pro rat a on the amounts of such members' guarantees respectively as it shall consider necessary but only tlioso members of the Council who have signed a guaranteo to the Protection Fund of'.£lo or more and who have paid all calls made on such fund shall be entitled to vote on any question relating to tho disposal <"'f Mich fund. •_;;;. Jvu-h nub>i:riliii!g merater shall have ~ju! vol<! ami no nioro, ami where any firm or company .-hall bo a subscribing member only "tie ai .v.ioh (inn or company shall ho entitled to vote. Whevo suoh member or his firm also represents any company or corporatioi), which has become v eubscribiusr member of tho association, he shall be entitled to one vote on behalf of each such company or corporation. Each nonsubsuribmg momber shall have a vote in tho election of the Conn'lmlion Board, but not in any other matter..' 24. Proper hooks of account fclmll bo kept as tho Council may direct. 25._ A Yiiarly audit of the accounts of the association shall be made by two iudcpimd»t auditors to bo appointed by the Council, nd v balanoo-sheot shall be mudu, printad,