DUNEDIN ATHENAEUM

Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 63

DUNEDIN ATHENAEUM

The annual meeting of subscribers to the Du.nedin Athenaeum was held last week, Mr F. W. Clayton (vice-president) presidMr Clayton, in moving the adoption of the annual report, as published recently, said their finances showed a distinct improvement, as they started the last year with a debit balance of £ll6. and finished with a credit of about £56. They had also slightly improved their membership. As showing the popularity of fiction with the majority of subscribers, Mr Clayton mentioned 'that the issues of fiction totalled 69,000, while all the other books only amounted to about 10 per cent, of the whole. The following office-bearers were ap-pointed:—Vice-president, Mr R. Vanes; hon. secrectarv, Mr P. Coyen; hon. treasurer. Mr F. W. Clayton ; auditors. Messrs G \V Canter and W. C. Walker; librarian. Mr H. F. Bastings; committee- Rev. Dr Dickie, Dr R. D. Milligan, Dr G. E. Thompson, Messrs W. Alexander. V . 11. Duke, J. M. Paterson. J. L. Salmond, A. Watt, and T. O. Brebnor.