Notice of Annual General Meeting

Forest and Bird, Issue 171, 1 February 1969, Page 18

Notice of Annual General Meeting

NOTICE is hereby given that the 41st Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held at Wellington on Saturday 31 May 1969 at 9.30 a.m. AGENDA 1. Apologies. 2. Minutes of Annual General Meeting held at New Plymouth on I June 1968. 3. Business arising out of minutes. 4. Consideration of Annual Report and Statement of Accounts. 5. Councillors who are retiring under Rule 9 (5) (a) and (b) and who are eligible for re-election: Mrs A. J. Du Pont and Messrs David Bowie and H. D. Saunders. 6. Election of three members to the Council under Rule 9 (I) (d). 7. Declaration of names of members appointed to the Council by branches and sections in terms of Rule 9 (I) (b) and (c). 8. The Council recommends that the rules be amended as under to provide for the election of a Deputy Chairman (proposed amendments italicised): COUNCIL Election and Retirement Rule 9 (I) There shall be a Council of the Society (in these Rules referred to as "the Council") which shall consist of: (a) (i) The President (who shall be chairman of the Council) (ii) The Deputy President. (iii) The Honorary Treasurer.

PROCEEDINGS Rule 9 (6) At the first meeting of the Council after the Annual Meeting in each year the Council shall before proceeding to any other business elect the following: (a) The President. (b) The Deputy President. (c) The Honorary Treasurer. (d) The members of the Executive (other than ex-officio members). Such persons shall take office immediately upon their election, and the President, Deputy President, Honorary Treasurer, and members of the Executive shall hold office until their successors are elected in the following year. NEW RULE 12 DEPUTY PRESIDENT There shall be a Deputy President. The Deputy President shall in the absence or incapacity of the President exercise all those duties and privileges normally exercised by the President. All rules hereafter to be renumbered. 9. Consideration of remits received in accordance with the rules. 10. Appointment of Auditor. I I. General. D. A. McCURDY, Secretary. Wellington, 10 January 1969.