ROSLYN DORCAS SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 10411, 4 September 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

ROSLYN DORCAS SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of the above society was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Roslyn, on the 2nd inst., the Rev. R. R. M. Sutherland in the chair. Tho meeting having been opened with prayer, the Committee’s report was read and adopted. Thanks were accorded as recommended in the report, as also to the retiring office-bearers and committee.

The following were elected office-bearers and committee for the ensuing year: Mrs Bannerman, president; Mrs R. R. M. Sutherland, vice-president; Mrs H. Livingston, treasurer; Mrs Burrows, secretary; and as members of committee—Mesdames Watson, Siers, Bain, Howard, Richards, andMisses Laing. With a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting was closed. The following was the Committee’s report

Since last annual meeting of the society your Committee has held eleven meetings, at which the collectors with praiseworthy'regularity bavgiven in their monthly reports. At each meeting the interests of those for whose benefit the society exists have been carefully considered and attended to, with the result that considerable help has been rendered them, by which their pressing necessities have been relieved. That help has taken the usual form of supplies of provisions, groceries, coals, bed and body clothing, the receipt of which has been gratefully acknowledged. Twenty-one families (being one less than in the previous year) have month after month been thus assisted. These families are of various religious denominations, no denominational distinction, borne recognised in the distribution of the society’s bounty, the society being entirely unsectarian. In addition to the forms of help already noticed, the Committee has been enabled to increase its aid by means of gifts of personal clothing kindly furnished by donors interested in the work of the society, to whom the thanks of the society are specially due. The collectors, to whom the society is so greatlv indebted, are also peculiarly deserving of its acknowledgments, as also of the Committee, which are tendered them.

The Committee desires rratefully to acknowledge the readiness of the contributors (who number 181) to respond to the visits of the collectors by giving their monthly contributions to the fundi of the society. These contributions for the year 1898-97 have amounted to the sum of £53 16s XOd, which, with the balance from last year of £lO 8s 3d and bank interest of 6s 9d, has placed at the disposal of the Committee for the year’s requirements £64 11a lOd. The necessities of the society’s beneficiaries have so nearly exhausted that sum as to have left a balance in the treasurer’s hands of only 7s 4d, as shown by the auditor's report hereto attached as usual.

Your Committee has much pleasure in reminding the society of the welcome gift of coals from the Kaitangata Coal Company to the society’s beneficiaries on the occasion of the record reign celebration, and in acknowledging the ready response given by Mr Watson, the company’s manager, to the Committee’s application that their beneficiaries should share in the company’s liberality. The thanks of the society are due to Mr Robert Watson for his service in auditing its accounts, to the Hoslyn Town Council for the use of their hall, and to Mr Wedge (town clerk) for his kind attention to the comfort of the Committee.