DISTRICT NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2005, 22 December 1921, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

DANNEVIKKi:. Mr and Mrs Redgrave left by mail train yesterday for Timaru, where it is their intention to spend a sl:®r.t holiday. The Ponsonby Boys’ Brass Band arc visiting Bannevirke early in the New Ifear. The Arcadia Picture Palace dispute regarding the seating arrangements, on account of which the Borough Council suspended the license, has been settled. The special general meeting of the Dannevirke and District Soldiers’ Institute on Tuesday evening, the 20th inst., was of a very lively nature. It was for the purpose of considering a motion of no confidence in the present president and executive. Mr I. Knight (president) was in the chair, and there were fifty or sixty members present. The president explained that a petition had been received signed by certain members asking that a meeting be convened for the above purpose and also to discuss general business. Unfortunately the petition was not in order, as it did not contain the required number of signatures. Acting, however, on the wish of the members, the committee had called a general meeting. He pointed out that although associate members could have a voice in any matters brought forward they could not vote. He asked the members who had any general business to bring forward to do so. A considerable amount of desultory discussion followed, which was of a distinctly personal nature. Mr Glass drew the chairman’s notice to the fact that the meeting was called for a special purpose, and members ivere drifting away from the subject under discussion. The president pointed out that although the petition was out of order, he was prepared to accept any motion that they were prepared to submit. After some further discussion Mr Hill moved the following motion, notice of which had been given: “That the members of the Soldiers’ Institute have no conlidence in the president and members of the management committee and request their resignation forthwith.” Mr Arthur Bayne seconded. The president stated that the committee was selected, from members of the R.S.A. and if £he motion was carried it would mean that the committee would hand the* Institute back to the trustees originally appointed. There followed further irregular discussion, the question of whether the voting should be on a show of hands or on paper, and it was finally agreed to take a show of hands, as laid down in the Institute Rule Book. Before putting the motion to the meeting, the president asked that, not for the sake of the committee, who did not wish to stay in office, but for the sake of the club, they confine their remarks to a policy of constructive and not destructive criticism. He regretted to say that there was a certain in the club which were out to pull the institute to pieces. He stated that the committee’s one desire was to help the club in every way to success. The question was not a want of confidence in the committee, but of the welfare of the club. He would'draw their atentlon to the fact that the committee had had a very strenuous time in their endeavour to make the club a success. Mr Allardice contended that a change in the mnagement committee was desirable. He also contended that a change in the secretaryship would be a benefit. Mr Wysocki, acting hon. secretary, replied that as far as he was concerned, he did not want the job. He had merely taken it to help the club out of a difficulty. If any member was desirous of holding the position he was quite welcome to it. He was willing to vacate the position at any time; there were no “putty medals” attached to it. Mr Svensen considered the meeting should get away from the personal element and apply their attention to something definite. The president then put the motion to the meeting, which was lost on a show of hands by 19 votes to 10. The management of the institute was then discussed, and several suggestions were offered for the improvement of the internal conditions and also to the outside appearance, and it was resolved to set up a House and Grounds Committee, consisting of the following members: Messrs A. H. Toomer, G. Bartiitt, A. Lindop, W. and A. Higgle, A T. Russell, J. Farquharson, J. A. Bang, R. C. Wysocki, F. Cossey and S. T. Paviour-Smith. A vote of thanks to the president concluded the meetin or-