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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 8

!Out of a possible 49 attendances, at the weekly meetings of the Trustees of the Benevolent Institution for. the perio"d December- 8, 1908, to November SO, 1909, Mr. R. W. Short, according to a: return submitted at the meeting of the board yesterday, came top with 46; Mr. David Robertson was.a good second with 44; and tho chairman (Mr. John Smith) finished third with 42. The others stood as follow:—Mr. H. Cook and the Rev. W. A. Evans, 36; Mr. J. Wakeham,.32; Miss Richmond, 29. During the period mentioned, the country members were excused from all but -the monthly finance meetings, of which there were 12. Mr. D. P. Loasby attended 10 'of these, while Mr. A. W: Hogg,-M.P., attended' nine.- .-.-; -.'■ .'■•'; : The ~- plethora of "coppers" on Saturday in connection with the hospital, collection led to .the perpetration of a rather neat-joke on the part of a "stolid" policeman, says the "Otago Daily Times."' "Just' a penny, please!" became a 6ort of-battle-cry of tho collector during the day, and,: finding mon so' susceptible, one bold lady decided to try it on a policeman. "Please give : us a- copper,"' she begged, and' held tho box out in a lino with his third tunic button. The big guardian of the peace eyed the box and the beggar. "Gladly,' he saidj "gladly. But tell me—how am I going, to get. into that, little,box?"- .-;. .' ', Compare, say, 'the old 'Dutch 'masters—like Van Dyck—with tho! modern' Royal Academician. • You seo at. once ■• that the is an amateur. He-cannot paint.—Mr. Bernard Shaw,' • ',-..-' ...