ALTON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 24 May 1917, Page 3

ALTON.

A (From Our Own Correspondent.) CORONATION HALL. The annual meeting in connection with the above hall was held on Month! nL g^' WS_ n Mr Hod Se occupied the chaur. The annual report aad balance-sheet of 1915-1916 were read and adopted and ehowed the liabilities at the end of the year to b e £366 lis 3d; the receipt, were £40 19s 7d, and the expenditure the same. w ln discussing tbe' balance-sheet, Mr Washer wished to know why no annual meeting or a meeting of any kind had teJil ■.for_ two, yeara- He con-; tended tha/fc when there was such a large sum'of borrowed money on a pub he budding as in the present instance" the position should be ,put before the residents annually. He thought it time that new blood was infused into the committee; perhaps that would tend, to improve things. + wr__ ?or. eman also expressed surprise that the annual meeting had not been held last year He thought the state ol attairs could be very much improved * the -ommititee had, to his way of thinking, grown very careless, and appeared to him to have lost all interest in getting up entertainments. They used to have some of the best .entertainments between Hawera and Wanganui, but lately everything seemed to be left to tthe younger people. Probably if the older ones, with more experience, were benSSl effeV 1 *111 * W t Mr Sutherland thought it was not al together the committee's' fault, as the other settlers should take more .interest in the finance, which would doubtless then improve. Mr Gibbs (secretary) said he was quite willing to /take his share of the blame io?,, nf holding the meetings;- he admitted flhey had grown careless—having tecomfSie. 1011^ he tho«^t they had loTft iQ-i? P°rt __* d baiance-sheet for IJI6-1917 were then read and adopted S°™ ng t^e indebtedness on the hall to be £364 lis 7d, with the receipt® £35 Bs, and expenditure £33 8s 4d, leavine a surplus of £1 19s Bd. fe After discussion, it was resolved that it be a recommendation to the incoming committee to consider -the advisable uess of procuring a caretaker to look , after the property. The chairman mentioned that he had received an offer by an old settler of Alton to subsidise by £1 every £3 colei pay ,off the Permanent debts on the hall and he thought that a big effort should be made to collect as much as possible from the settlers and the young people. The following were then proposed for a new committee by Messrs Foreman and Sutherland : Messrs- Hodge, Tayler Neilson, Sutherland^ and Washer to^ I gether with the trustees, Messrs Fore j man and Gibbs. Messrs Neilson and Washer proposed J as an amendment that Messrs Hodge, Sutherland, Tayler. Gibbs, and Foreman be a committee. This was lost and the chairman put the resolution and declared it carried. At a subsequent meeting Messrs Modge and Gibbs were elected chairman and secretary respectively.