A DERELICT DEPARTMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1843, 25 August 1906, Page 3

A DERELICT DEPARTMENT.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES’ FUNDS,

{Special to Gisborne Times.)

Wollmgion, last Digbt. M Arnold is dravviug attention to tho v. y unsati-factory condition of that rudderless Department th> t has to dpa! with Friendly Societies. Ho give notico to-day of a question about tho do’ay in tho quinqaouuia! valuations, and also in allooasiog tbo surplus funds of tinny Lodges. Ho is uiging Government to appoint stuio compel-.nt person or per.-ons iu terms of tho Act who can conduot tbo DrparUUiUt in a p'Oper minrior. Mr Arnold iufutiiH mo that on tin 28. h Doctmbor, 1906, oempluiuls were made to the Deportment that returns wero then 12 months overdue. In April, 19C6, tho registrar stated that tho woik was moro than half done, aod ho hoped to have it finished sood, but at tho end of Ju.y Mr Bsrztni, deputy registrar, wtoto to say that tbo whoio o‘ tho work was huog up iu ocDstqueccs of thoio being nobody in tho t ilist whs was able to do it. He had hop:-s, however, that shortly appointments would he made so that it could tie gone cn wrtti. Mr Arnold, howover, poins out that although tho lute registrar resigned iu April la-s, no one has beta appointed in his stead, and there is absolutely no one who eau do the woik of tbo Friendly Societies throughout tho colonies.