KAPONGA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 8

KAPONGA.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. (From Our Own Corresponds The annual general mieeiin » + » ibove Society was held at the fof th Sail to-night. Mr W. Swr ,^ lhen * c . UI President, presided; also "*"*> Vice lames Walker gnd Macl- P™**f-- P" Fretbey, C. S. Walker, *&£> J F. J. Knram (assign •C - E - *> te > a *< The Secretary stf -^ "f^l* , ,heet for the yer •» m « ed £° 1 " l^gQg *p ending 31st March The revenue '••,-.*, v■> i. boballedi £89 " s baiance-shee me: Balanc i 6s ' ltbe Pria^Pa l i* 611^ be fi36 Qs A * san^ Slst Marc^ is 3d" ■*' lOOIr B** *h ow > £1' Buessir refreshments, £6 13s; she©] ugpg, competitions, £2 9s 6d; mem no fiubacriptiomß, £9 10s; donations n . 14a M; entrance fees, £10 7s. Th jdoim iJtems of expenditure were : Priz money, £33 4«; printing and advertising £7 4s; rent of hall £2 ss^ sundry ac counts, £2 19s 9d ; band donation, £1 Is hire marquee, labor, stamps, etc., £4 1 4d; balance in bank 31st March, 1908 £36 5s 8d; balance in. hand £2 ios 3d The 1908 ahow receipts yielded a profi 6t £3 0b 9d. The Society's assets are ai follows : Bank. £39 0s Ud ; 720 ft timber £3; total, £42 Os^lld. The .members (present were surprises and gratified n* there being a credit bal aaioe from the last show, andi expressed their aatisf action. The balance-sheet was adopted. The Chairman considered that as th« Society did not require their surplus til] next year the most of it should be placed either at the Post Office Savings ißank oi at the Society's bank a£ a fixed deposit for 12 months. The interest would more than pay bank chaises. Membera agreed amd the following resolution was adopted:' That Messrs Swadling and Cowern be authorised to place £30 of the Society's funds at a fixed deposit with the Society's Gink.— (Frethey— Walker.) Mr aaid Mrs Walker, who were thi? Society's delegates at' a meeting held at Stratford for the purpose of considering the formation of a Taranaki Horticultural Association, reported thnit every society to Taranaki excepting Noxmanby were represented at that meeting. It was practically decided' to form the Association Mr S. WaTd, of Stratford, had boen appoitnted secretary pro tern. The annual fee would be about £1 Is. Each eociety was "expected to eend. suggestions regard'lng matters affecting societies, such for instance as the appointment of judges, rules, revising catalogues,, etc. Air and Mrs Walker were thanked far their report, and the following resolution was adopted: That the Kapongo. Horticultural Society jom the proposed Taranaki Horticultural "Association, The following committee waß elected to prepare a suggestion list: Mesdames Frethey-and Walker, Messrs Frethey, Wnlker, and Rev. Scott. Kaponga, April 9.