OTAGO GOLD-FIELDS PERMANENT FREEHOLD LAND BUILDING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 480, 30 June 1871, Page 2

OTAGO GOLD-FIELDS PERMANENT FREEHOLD LAND BUILDING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY.

A meeting of tho members (convened by advertisement) was held in the Clyde library, on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of adopting the rules, election of a permanent board of Directors, and other officers. About thirty gentlemen were present. Mr. J. U. Cambridge being voted to'Tthe chair, suggested the better course to pursue woul * be, first to read and adopt ..the rules, and then proceed to the election of officers ; bur he submitted, as most of the members bad been supplied wi hj a rough copy of the rules, it was undesirable to read them ver~ batimet seriatim.

Mr. Hueston said he should like the whole of the rules read and discussed separately.

Mr. Facte said the rules being passed in accordance with the various Acts of Parliament regulating societies of the kind, a great many rules related merely to the duties of the officers, and being of but little interest t > the general bodies of the members, he wonld ; suggest only those affecting the duties of members be read and discussed, or the meeting would be interminable.

Mr. Pyke-proposed than the heads only of the various 'rules; he read and when it was deemed necessary to discuss one, to do so and pass on. After some further discussion, this course was adopted, and the Interim Secretary, Robert Barlow, read through th" rules which with but'few alterations were adopted. The following officers we re duly appointed by the show of hands. '

President.—James Hazlett'Esq!," Mayor. Directors.—Messrs. Pyke, Samson, Clark, Patterson, Cambridge; ’and Trustees. —Messrs; W. Fraser and B. Naylor Treasurer.—A ChristophersErq. Auditor.E. Ings Esq. ' ‘ ‘ ■; ' The Secretary explained the number of Shares taken up were one hundred and twelve, and that the first meeting night for the receiving of subscriptions was the second Monday in July, and invited all members to be ’ punctual in their attendance. . ’

A desultoryconversation took’'pl«ce as to the final revision of the rules. Some members of the Provisional Committee explained that an Officer of the Crown was appoint?, I’ for that purpose, who doubtless would see that nothing repugnant to the laws crept into the "Rules of the Society. Mr, Marshall in a few apppropriate words, proposed a vote of thanks to the Provisional Committee for the trouble they had taken in fairly starting the Society, which was duly seconded and carried. A vote of thanks to the Chair, concluded the meeting,