HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9801, 10 May 1924, Page 7

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

AWARD OF BANKS!AN GIFT AIEDAL. An executive committee meeting was held last' Wednesday evening in tho Women’s club rooms. Present: Mr E. P. Mountfort (chairman), Airs T. H. Garrett, Messrs. J. Harvey, E. C, Calcott, K. F. Nasmith, G. T. Maunder, H Stubbings, H. Johnston, W. R. L. Williams. . A letter was received from the Royal Horticultural Society, London, in reply to a letter sent asking for a ruling on the correct way the bronze Banksian gift modal was to he awarded. This referred to the 1923-24 modal, which was held over until this information came to hand; also to all future bronze Banksian gift medals. The awarding of the 1923-24 gilt Banksian medal was discussed and Messrs Williams, Johnston and Maunder were asked to retire, as they were interested exhibitors, while the balance of the committee settled as to whom tho medal was to he awarded to. Mr J. Harvey proposed that rut Stubbings opinion that Air IT. Johnston’s dahlias staged at the Autumn Show were the outstanding feature ol 1923-24 shows he adopted as the decision of tho committee and that n.e bronze Banksian gift medal bo awarded to him for 1923-24. Seconded by Mr- E. P. Mountfort and carried. Air J. Harvey proposed that tbe following he mado a regulation: “That the bronze Banksian gift medal be awarded yearly in the following rotation: Dahlia 1923-23; fruit, 1924-25; chrysanthemum, 1925-26; daffodil, 1926-27 prose, 1928-29, to the competitor gaining the most points in these specified features, providing that, should the judge consider that the exhibits of the person gaining most points are not up to the standard expected by the R.H.S., the medal may go to the next feature in rotation, when the same" conditions will Apply in the following year.” The award yf the medal will revert to the feature losing it on account of lack of merit, the same conditions applying, if it is impossible for the executive committee tq give the medal to a succeeding feature and it shall he returned to tho R.H.S. and will be lost to that feature until it comes around again in rotation. This motion was seconded by Air AV. McKinnon and. carried. All” the present office hearers are reminded that they will be considered as nominated unless they shall have expressed to the secretary by Afay 19 their intention to retire. A general meeting will he held on the 16th inst. to consider notices of motion given by Alessrs G. *T. Alaunder and W. AlcKinrion. ' The annual general meeting will be held in the Women’s Club Rooms, Peel street, on June 2.