SUTER ART SOCIETY.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12167, 15 February 1908, Page 2

SUTER ART SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING OF SUBSCRIBERS. annual meeting of the Suter Art Society was held at the Art Gallery yesterday IJisbop Mules, President, was in the chair, and the attendance of subscribers was much larger than usual. The Hod. Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Nioa Jones, presented the report and statement of accounts, which s howed that the cost of the annual exhibition had been rather more than the receipts from that source, hence it had not been possible |to purchase any. pictures for ad dition to the permanent collection. The balance in hand, some £2(1, was no more than sufficient to provide for tbe maintenance and other charges for the current yeai. The report and statement of accounts, were duly adopted, and Mr C. Y. Fell spoka "of the necessity for aouie special effort to acquire pictures for the permanent collection. He was sorry th:tt some of tno pic- ! tures from the International Exhibition had not been secured. He goved that it bo a recommendation to the Committee to lake the best means of promoting a fund for the purchase of pictures. This was seconded by Mr H. B ruse witz, and carried. „ Officers were re-elected as follows • — Vice-Presidents, Messrs Fell and Nicholson: Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Nina Jones*: Committee, Mesdamas Nicholson and Topliss and Miss Sadd and Miss Brusewitz. The practice for sometime has been that the annual meeting is the only general' meeting of subscribers hold during the year, and Mr P. Bond suggested that general meetings should be held more frequently, and especially tnat one be held shortly before the annual exhibition. Mrs Topliss suggested that the

honorary members should get up an enterainment in aid of the 'Society^ funds. :Mr Nicholson brought up for consideration the advisableness of holding an exhibition of sketches only jus the annual exhibition. . There was no doubt that framed pictures <\ete more attractive, to \k® labile; ; bjir.; the freurhfc charges for framed <jiictures were hpavy.(*or last exhibition they were £M). Unframed sketches would not involve moro than onefourth of this expense; This matter was left to the Committee for decision. On tho motion of Mr Brusewitz, it was resolved that the Committee have the power to allocate twentyfive per cent of the credit balance of any year to a fund for the purchase of pictures. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the ollicers aud Commute and -the Chairman* Procedmg the business meeting an "At Uoiiie" and exhibition oi sketches by members tdo.k' place 1 :/ This was latgely attended, and Mr Fe11,. . '0n, , behalf;. oi: the. $ocietf;thanked Bishop Mules lur the interr est he had taken therein, and wished himself and .Mrs Mules' a pleasant trip to the Old Country, aud a safe return. • - ■ =. ■ ■ . .■ < . The sketches were mosllyjoontri"-"" buted -by members of the Society, who imva beeii regular exhibitors, but a few new names wore noticeable, including Mr C. Y. Fell, who made a large exhibit and Misses Curnn and B. .Nicholson.