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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 22 January 1898, Page 3

HAWERA BOROUGH COUNCIL. STATUTORY lIALF-HOLIDAY. IyrOTICE is hereby given that at X 1 a Speoial Meeting of the above Council, held on Thursday, 20th insfc., in compliance with " The Shops and Shop Assistants Aot, 1894," Friday was fixed as the Statutory Half-holiday within this Borough for the ensuing year. ALEX. G. BBETT, 24,26 Town Clerk. LOYAL UNION LODGE, 1.0.0. F., M.U., No. 6480. SPEOIAL Summoned Meeting of the above Lodge will be held on Monday, 24th January, at 7.80 p.m. Bubinbsb— lmportant. By Order, H. S. ELLIOTT, Seoretary. HE WEST COAST FARMERS' TRADING ASSOCIATION (LIMITED). Capital £5000 in £1 Shares. Subscribed Capital £860 Directors : L. H. MoAlpine, Esq., R. L. Hutohens, Esq., D. C. C. Gebbie, Esq., John Buohanan, Esq. Registered Offiofi, Regent at., Hawera. Managing Direotor, L. H. MoAlpine. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT To be presented to the Shareholders at the first Annual General Meeting to be held at 11.80 a.m. on THURSDAY, the 10th day of February, 1898, at the Company's Office, Regent street, Hawera — Your Directors have pleasure in submitting the First 'Annual Report and Balanoe Sheet of the Company, and at the same time congratulating the Shareholders upon what must be considered a most satisfactory result for the years' operations seeing that, notwithstanding the depression generally and the lack of vitality and enterprise whioh have prevailed, we have oeen enabled to write off £15 from Initial Expenses Aooount and and carry forward a small balanoe to Credit of Profit and Loss Aooount. YourDireotors prediot greater success for the year upon whioh we have entered, for the following reasons : Ist. That we start upon the new period with a turnover more than double that whioh we started the year ending December 81st, 1897. 2nd. That a great deal of time and energy was spent in regaining old and creating new business, the full benefit of whioh will be felt during the year upon whioh we have entered. Brd. That your Company has regained and enjoys the full confidence of the publio with whom they do business, in proof of whioh we point to the large inorease in your dubiness. We have no radical changes in the working of the business of your Company to suggest, as we believe we are already working on the best lines for the welfare of the shareholders. L. H. MoALPINE, Chairman.

BALANCE SHEET, JANUARY Ist, 1898. DB. £ s. d. Initial Expense Aooount ... 48 711 Goodwill 150 0 0 Plant 72 11 6 Eltham Branch 861 0 6 Sundry Persons 982 10 5 Goods Aooount 869 4 0 Oash In Hand ... ' ... 28 12 7 £2007 6 10 Ob. £ s. d. Bill Payable... 826 19 8 Sundry Persons 1097 18 7 Bank 18 7 Amount paid up on Share Account 581 2 11 Or. Balanoe Profit and Loss Account 0 7 1 £2007 6 10 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Db. £ s. d< License 40 0 0 Insuranoe, Stationery, Rates 19 7 0 Advertising Aocount ... 17 4 0 Carting Aocount 9 8 3 Salary and Wages Account 408 8 0 Rent Aooount 154 4 8 Petty Expense Aooount ... 54 15 8 Initial Expense Aooount ... 15 5 0 Balance 0 7 1 £718 14 8 Ob. £ b. d. Sundry Items 5 5 6 Commission Earned ... 516 9 4 Goods Aooount Or 191 19 10 £718 14 8 1 hereby certify that I have compared this Balanoe Sheet with the Ledger and found same oorreot. (Signed) A. ELLIOTT, Auditor. Hawera, 17th January, 1898.

Hawera, 17th January, 1898.

ST. MABY'S" OHUHCH HAWiSBA. GBAND BAZAAB. promoted by the members of Ladies' Committee to pay off the debt on the Vicarage. opera"~house. Wednesday and thursday, February 16th and 17th. Plain Work, Art, Produco, Befreshment, Jumble, Parcel and Doll Stalls. VILLAGE PUMP, etc. Most entertaining SIDE SHOWS. Tableaux. Farox— " BOX AND COX." Shooting Gallery, Fortune Telling, Nail Driving, Boot Blaoking, Chalking the Pig's Eye, Gentlemen's Hat Trimming, etc., eto. An excellent programme of musio will be performed during the afternoons. The following Competitions are being arranged : — Doll-dressing, Table Centre, Musical, and several Ghildbin's Competitions. Full particulars of all these may be obtained at the Vicarage. All are oordially invited to enter «t one*. Prises given.