PUHA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 14

PUHA NEWS

HALL ASSOCIATION MEETS

(Herald Correspondent.)

There was a good attendance of members and intending members at the annual meeting of the Puha. Public Hall Association. The balance sheet, which showed a good credit balance, was adopted. "During the past year the committee have been enabled to place the financial position of the association on a much sounder basis and hopes that all members will appreciate the fact," stated the president, Mr. R. D. Dymoek, in his annual report. "The existing mortgage on the hall has been paid off. In the past the association has been paving 7J, per cent per annum. The committee has been successful in floating a new loan at 5 per cent per annum for five years. This the committee hopes will be the means of creating support from the Puhu residents generally, financial and otherwise. The finances are now in a very satisfactory position and the committee hopes the ensuing year's work will show good results • "Towards the end of the year the committee entered into a contract with Inland Cinemas for a lease of the hall for a weekly screening of the pictures. This should greatly assist the finances. "Thanks to the splendid work and efforts of the Puha Women's Institute and social committee, the committee is able to report that the old pia.no lias been replaced by a new one. This piano is the joint property of the Puha. Hall Association and the Women's institute, to be used for the benefit of all, the piano being free of debt."

Since the end of the financial year the hall lias been repainted. The calf drive, to which all the residents of the district had promised calves, was discussed It was decided that the owners should hold the calves for another month to six weeks and if they were not able to do so, they were asked to communicate with. Mr. Dymoek.

The following officers .were elected : President, -Mr. R. 1). Dymoek, re-elect-ed ; vice-presidents, Messrs. J. Marshall and A. Mulholland, re-elected ; secretary and treasurer, Mr. G. P. Sefton, reelected; committee, Messrs. (!. Pafon, ,1. McGregor, B. White, E. Newing, G. Askew, and McK. Campbell. The social committee was re-elected en bloc, with power to add to its number. This committee had arranged the social functions, which had been a great success financially and socially.