CROMWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 158, 19 November 1872, Page 5

CROMWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY.

- - —«. The annual meetrlg of subscribers was held in the Roading-npm last Tuesday evening,— the President, ir Preshaw, occupying the chair. The objecs of the meeting were to receive the Committer's animal report, and to elect a new committe of management for the current year. The President to the meet in" for the absence of the Wual report, —a circumstance which he attibuted to a doubt having arisen as to whetlir the duty of preparing it lay with the latt Secretary or the present one. However, 'n was ;d,ul to be able to say that the institntnn was now j>i a much better position tlan last year. He was not prepared to give a strictly accurate statement of its tinam-hl affairs, but could not be far wrong in saying that after paying subscriptions to nev.spajers and cuu/azines up to the end of 1873, am also all of management up to tie close of the last financial year (31st October ultimo), a balance of over L.12 still renin icd in hand. The promised endowment of land at the lower Flat had been handed o'er to the Library Committee by the Athenaim Hall Committee, who had also transared the grant of land ceded to them as a slie for the proposed hall. The completion of tfegoeiations regarding those m.itters, and tin subsequent man-

agement of the valuable properties shortly to bo Vested in the institution, would require careful consideration at the hands of the Committee about to bo elected ; and he counselled the subscribers to choose as members of committee only those in whose ability to direct the affairs of the institution they could place the most implicit reliance. (Applause.) Mr Fraer spoke in eulogistic terms of the success which had attended the efforts of the retiring committee, to whom he thought a cordial vote of thanks w.ts justly due, and had great pleasure in moving to that effect. The motion was carried by acclamation. It was unanimously resolved to change the name of the institution from " Cromwell Public Library" to " Cromwell Athenaeum." The undermentioned gentlemen were then nominated as members of committee, viz. : Messrs Baird, Bastings, Colclough, Fraer, Jolly, Lake, MacKellar, Marsh, Matthews, Preshaw, Taylor, Allanby, Foreman, Pierce, Pretseh, Sansom, Smythies, and C. Wright. A ballot was taken, which resulted in the election of the first eleven on the list. Messrs Sansom and Smythies were elected auditors of accounts.

The business of the general meeting being disposed of, the members of the newly-elected Committee met, and proceeded to elect officebearers. Mr Preshaw was re-elected as President ; Mr MacKellar as Vice-President; and Mr Jolly as Secretary and Treasurer.