FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 November 1970, Page 154

FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY

M. Walton, Honorary Secretary

ANNUAL REPORT 1969/7O

Membership. It is pleasing to note that the increase in the Society’s membership has been sustained, the total as at 31 March 1970 being 327, an increase of twenty during the year. Further exchanges for the Record have been arranged. The Committee decided that in view of the earlier increase in the annual subscription the Annual General Meeting in 1970 should be asked to amend the rules to increase the Society’s Life Membership to SSO. Officers. In June 1969 Miss Darea Sherratt kindly agreed to act as Honorary Treasurer following the resignation of Mrs S. Beeby. Miss Sherratt also acted as Honorary Secretary during Miss Walton’s absence on leave. In November the Committee accepted with regret the resignation of Mr A. S. Helm on his appointment to a position in the Cook Islands. Mr Helm has been an active member of the Society’s executive for sixteen years and his support and counsel will be greatly missed. The President, Canon N. Williams, left for overseas early in the year, since when Professor D. F. McKenzie has acted as Chairman. Meetings. Following the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 1969 Mr I. McL. Wards spoke on the career of Lieutenant G. Bennett as a Royal Engineer in Ireland and New Zealand. At a meeting on 23 October Mrs I. M. Winchester discussed the background and brief career in New Zealand of the architect and artist Edward Ashworth. In both cases the speakers’ addresses were based on the work they arc doing in editing for publication manuscripts acquired by the Library. Sale of Publications. Sales of publications associated with the Library and its interests have continued to provide an increasingly significant proportion of the Society’s income. The Committee is pleased to place on record its appreciation of the generosity of the Directors of the Evening Post in donating to the Society the entire profits from the sale of the Post’s reproduction of the Cook chart of New Zealand. In addition to ordering a further printing of the Library’s own reproduction the Committee decided to issue two sets of greetings cards, the first in colour of Webber’s aquatint of Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte Sound and Cleveley’s aquatint of the Death of Cook and the second of six drawings of botanical subjects from Parkinson’s sketches made during Cook’s first voyage.