UNITED BUILDING SOCIETY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1909, Page 8

UNITED BUILDING SOCIETY.

The report of the directors of the United Building Society of Wellington, to be submitted at the annual meeting, records profits for the year on tho First Fund as £1036 16s Bd, and £382 l<te 5d on tho Second Fund. The creditbalance of each fund stands at £2911 3s 8d and £490 9s 4d respectively. There were six appropriations, throe by ballot and three by salo in the Firnt Fund, the latter yielding a profit to the society of £937 10s, and of the two appropriations in the Second Fund,' the one tty sale also yielded a profit — £360. It ie anticipated that there will be sufficient funds in the First Fund for an appropriation of £1000 by eale, which ib it proposed to offer at the annual meeting. An appropriation of £1000 will also be submitted ,by sale on behalf of the successful member who drew the appropriation hold last montht. An appropriation, by eale, of £1000, on account of the First Fund on 23rd September, realised a premium of 34 per cent. As the mortgage was not completed on the date of the balance-sheet, this transaction will be included in next year's statement. Messrs. O. S. Watkins and J. D. Sievwright, retiring directors, are offering themselves for re-election. Mr. A. E. Whvte is a candidate for one of the Vacancies on the board.

A man with no fixed place of abode, by name George Whito, was convicted of being a rogue and a vagabond, and this morning, in the Wellington Stipendiary Magistrate's Court, on a charge cent to prison for six months. For having stolon a, copper boiler he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. On the motion of Mr. A. H. Vile, seconded by Mr. A. W. Hogg, it was resolved by the Education Board today, "That the Masterton School Committee be informed that under the existing regulations of the board permission cannot be granted for religious instruction in board schools during school hours, which at present are five hours per diem." Mr. diaries Bary, at present in charge of tho Eosenoath School, has been recommended to the xMount Cook School Commfttoe for the position of the Mount Cook Boy 6' School, about to be vacated, by Mr. W. Foster, who is to become headmaster of the Petone School. "I did not intend to stow away, your | Worship," said Houry Preston to Mr. I W. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day. "It was this way :— 1 jot drunk in Auckland and went aboard tho Navua' and went to sloop. When I woke up the steamer was outsido the harbour." Sub-Inspec-tor Norwood did not endorse this statement, lio said that accused was discovered in concealment under a chair in tho dining saloon. Accused was ordered to pay tho amount of tho steamer faro from Auckland to Wellington — £2— or, if ho preferred, go to gaol for 21 days. Mossrs. Caterer and Carey advertise that they have been successful in buying I at a low prioe, a warehousemen's stock of Wash goods, cambrics, crepons, etc. Tho particulars of a horso fair to be hold at Palmerston North on Saturday are adverted in this issue by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Aerenoy Co.. Ltd. * j