REEFTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 January 1909, Page 1

REEFTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

I UK ANNUAL MEE'i IN'tJ. Tlie ordiuun monthly luc.'tiug of Trustier, of the abic.c S<■eh I \ was held in the I.', unci) Cham In is,' Keefton, on Thursday I4lh .lauiiary. I "resent : Mcsdames Scant lebur\ (chaii ). Calder, IVnmse, Ivldy. Lewis and Miss Morris. Throe cases were dealt will) ami relief granted. The accounts which w« re passed for pay until amounted to £lB 9s Bd. 'I he visitors for ensuing month are Me-.!am:-> fabler a.n.l L-wis. At the (dose of iJie business uieeliil.g the I'rcsideut read th" following report : - "In present ing our I3ih annual ivpoll it! the time of t Sir- IJritlllier disaster tils' as a small effort, .and afterwards through the "iff of Mr Ziinon og £250 we became incorporafed with (iovel-llllietil Subsidy and supervision. etc. As von know we thereby are compelled t . raise £IOO annually-, liefore we can claim this subsidy which is 24s for every £, thus bringing up our yearly income to something over £220. Besides this, we are obliged to have 100 members vearlv v.ho have subscribed not less' than 5;- yearly. To do both of these requires great effort on the part of our Trustees and we have to he for ever on the alert, and pull well together (o accomplish lids.

"For our sueess for the 0 months of this last vear from 31s! March to 31st December, 1908, you will learn from th" balance sheet 'which the Secretary will presently read. We have in view Iwo other efforts before the end of our financial year. March 31st 1900. namely our Murchison collections, and our Moonlight Concert which we hope will he the usual success thus enabling ns t.. raise the necessary £IOO. ''Before concluding 1 must thank air present Trustees for the way they have each done their work of visiting and collecting during the past year and especially our energetic Secretary who is ever in her place and ready t.. undertake .any of her duties (which certainly are not light) on the shortest loiice, and in the most practical manner.

"Although we are obliged to call this public meeting for the election of new Trustees and the consideration of our balance sheet, on Ihe 2nd Thursday in January our officers retain office until March 31at following, as we considered it most inadvisable and somewhat, unfair for a new set of Trustees and Officers to take over the management of this Society and be responsible for the raising of the necessary £IOO in the space of three months, we therefore continue to administer until the 31st March 1909, when the new Officers and Trustees would take up their duties.— Annie Scantlebury, President."

The balance sheet road by the Secretary showed the receipts for the past nine months to be £74 leaving a balance of £26 to be got before the 31st March to make up the necessary £IOO. The three Senior Trustees, viz., Mosdumes ScanUebury, Lewis and Eddy retired and were re-elected on the motion of Mrs Calder, Secretary by Mrs Penrose. A hearty vote of thanks to the President for the able manner in which she hack performed the duties of her office terminated the meeting.