ATHENÆUM COMMITTEE.

North Otago Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 6632, 3 May 1888, Page 3

ATHENÆUM COMMITTEE.

The usual monthly meeting was held in i tbe Institute las' night. The pre?iden', i Mr It. B, Wilaon, took the chsir, nnd therewr.ro pronent Mcmm Aldrich, Allan, Brown, Forrerer, M'Donald, Ssnd'non, Spenoa, Sunop'er, and Lee, hon. 6OCIOtary. Tbe minuses of the laat mccuajj wera read nnd confirmed. Tho Hbnrinn reported that iho sub loriptlon money p.iid during tho month ' bad hpen more than ueusl, anti anionnicd to 14,0 si. The quei ion of sutyjcrip'tons in arroar wai again brought up. The Committee oon«idored that tbenfc HHbecribcrs were well able to Day, nnd instructed ''re librarian (o urge that paymont bs rnalo during tbe monib. Six tnstmbers left ('a'ing tbe month, and thirteen joined, and the lotsl on the roll wsa uta-ed to be 220, Mr Beat was clec'ed a mambur of Ooramli'ce in place o( Mr Scou rcjiianc/1. The Oomroit'ee rcgraifed having to nocppt th« rceign*tion of onr who had taken flo muob interest in fhe welfaro of the Ins'im*e, It vr»o decide-) to ob'aln ft sscond copy of the Otciffo Daily Times and to plac? tbe sam« tn •!>« frea read'tiß room, Tho Daily Times and Witness Company wrote elating 'ha» tbfy could no loopei supply tbo Witness Ircc, buc would n.ake r charge of LI a y»ar, After disoHa^on, it T?ao reeolvcd thafc tbe paper be retained, Mr Sanderson propned that a aooond copy o/ the Lyttelton Times b« obtained, Bt'd placed in the fn-o rendiiif? room, seeing ttat the proprioiora had oflored # lecond o-)py at half price. Mr Lee icconded the motion, which vrno loot, Mr Ssnderion then g»r/j nolico that ht would more at next moving that th« former resolution — that (hat paper bt placed in the reading room on tho day of iwue— 'H reicinded. Toe Seor< tary repor'ed that the to al receipts from tne laio concert amounted to LlB 10* M, and after p»yit»g fill cxponßon there was a balanno ol LG 18s 6d. A vote of thanks wit» aeoordsd to those who took part in tbe concert, end the Oomznit'oe regrettod tbo emalinetb of tin attendance at to excellent n performance. Tbe turn o< LlO 10« was vo»ed to the Bazaar Committee to oorar preliminary expeneev. A vo'o of thanks to the chairman con eluded tbe wcwa

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