CALEDONIAN SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1929, Page 5

CALEDONIAN SOCIETY.

ANNUAL REPORT PROPOSAL TO ABANDON SPORTS In the annua] report of the Wai rare 5 pa? Caledonian Society, to be presented at the annual meeting on Thursday, 1 P March 21, the president (Mr Leonard Clarke) states that the membership was 218 at the beginning of the year, and showed a net gain of 16 for the period under review. The praßident pays a tribute to the Ladies’ Committee to whose untiring efforts was? due rhe success of the Ingleside held in i August last and places on record the directors’ sincere appreciation ®f rhe liberality and valuable sendees to tno (society of the Chief. Mr. Robert Com!eron. Mr R. H. Williams resigned the jposition of secretary at the end of (September last, and Mr P. A. Macomjish Aras appointed in an honorary capacity. The accumulated fund has increased during the year by £5O 7s 4d. A loss of £95 16s is shown on the sports account, including £l3 14s 6d which strictly belongs to lhe previous year. |The entertainment account shows a

los? of £46, of which £5 12« s pertains to the previous year. The income in gen|eral account exceeded expnditure by J £192 4s, but of this excess, £66 13® re--5 presents excess depreciation in previous accounts on Pipe Band equipment. 'The equipment was sold during the ' year for £l4O. The directors recommend that Mr. Robert Cameron, Mauriceville; and Mr J. W. Henderson, Masterton, be elected honorary life -.nembens in recognition of their long and faithful service

to the society. Mr H. M. Douglas has given notice of the following motion to be proposed at the annual meeting: * 4 That in the opinion of this meeting, the society has .outlived its usefulness as an organiser of athletic sports meetings, and that in viow of the heavy annual loss on the society’s sports, it be a recommenda|tion to the incoming directors to etTfl'sider the abandoning for the future of the sports and substitution of other 'activities, especially those of a national character.” | As an alternative: “That the direc'tois consider the advisability of holding the sports on some other than (New Year’s Day.” I The president observes that the mo-

(tion calls for a representative opinion r |and that he trusts the attendance at ■(the meeting will be considerable. ‘ | The following office-bearers have L jbeen nominated and as a ballot is not members at the annual meeting will be asked to declare the respective nominees duly elected: President, Mr L. Clarke; vice-presidents, Messrs JM.. Mackenzie Douglas and A. C. Mac’diarmid; treasurer, Mr J. Ker.dake; directors, Messrs T. B. Braggins, lan Cameron, W. J. Campbell, W. Douglas, •J. V. Gordon, J. W. Henderson. W. E. ■Knott, G. Malmo, E. D. D. A. Pickering, J. Walker.