AKAROA HORTICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 410, 9 July 1880, Page 2

AKAROA HORTICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Committee of the •abave society was held in the Government Schoolhouso, Akaroa, on Wednesday .last. The accounts for the past year, as audited by J. D. Garwood, Esq., wore pa.'lspd, showing, the gross . jecejpts; iti> amount to ii4|) .Iβ Bqi, jatip the; expenditure to £39 16s'7d, leaving a, balance pf 5s Id. The Committee hadalso in hand Wo valuable articles for prizes. , ... ; i , •.,:■.

At the public meeting- which followed the Rev. H. Stacker was moved to the '.cfhifir. . \ ■■ .

It was resolved tha; the next Exhibition should bo hold on Dec. 1G next.

' The t'ollovving officers were elected-for the ensuing year: — Rev, W. Aylmer. PrcßiHtiitj Rev. H. Btocker, Vioe-pre.si-denL; Stephen Wutkina, Esq.., Secretary arid Treaauror; MeHwrs J. D. Garwood, A. Westenra, A. G. Wiggins, W. Jollie, W. H. Kenning, J. Hnrfis, H. Billons, W. Meech, A. IX'ieliolls, W. Perm, and 11. Kick now, Committee.

A vote of thanks was passed .to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned.

We learn that it is intended to hold a meeting of the Committee in a month's time in order to put matte re connected with the society into working order. It

was decided that a sub-committee conaiating of ladies shouM bo appointed to supervise matters connected with the needlework department and other arrangements in which the "fair ccx" always prove themselves much greater adepts than the male portion of any community.