SCOTTISH SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 27, 26 October 1917, Page 8

SCOTTISH SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING. The balance-sheet read at the annual meeting of the Scottish Society showed that the bank balance more than trebled during the year just ended. This was mainly credited to ths untiring energv of the- secretary, Mr. W. E. Boyd. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: —Chief, Mr. 4 Campbell; chieftain, Mr. Ballantyne; secretary, Mr. W. E. Boyd; treasurer, Mr.. MacGregor; committee, Messrs. Grant, H. Clark, Brown, Duncan, I). Campbell, Hands, and G. 1 Clark; ladies' committee, Misses Ballantyne, Irvine, N. Watson, I. Watson, Fergusson, and Burns. All the retiring officers were cordially thanked for their past services, notably the retiring chief, Mr. C. Foster, who won, the unqualified esteem of every member. The hon. auditor, Mr. E. C. Ludivig, N.Z.1.E., was accorded a hearty of thanks for invaluable services rendered by him. Life members elected during the year were Mrs. MacMillan, Mr. C. Foster, Mr. D.. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Lauder, and Mr. and Mrs. Graeme-Moffat. Three remits from the retiring executive were submitted to the meeting. The first, "That the Scottish Society of Wellington enters a protest against the State schools being wholly and exclusively English, instead of there beiug, as they should be, a fair reflex of the integral parts of (lie Empire." This was carried, tho newly appointed chief being the only dissentient. Two other remits similar in nature and character to the first lapsed for tho want of a seconder.

Mr. A. Campbell, the newly appointed chief, in the course of liis inaugural address, brought Mrs. Luke's Christmas Gift Fund prominently before the meeting, and said that lie was present primarily for that reason. He suggested that ail the pipers and all wearerß of the tartan kilt" should be put on exhibition on St. Andrew's Day by way of advertisement. An interjector facetiously remarked that kilted tnndwichnien should prove a, successful Innovation. The meeting closed with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne."