RAILWAY EMPLOYES BENEFIT SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2056, 25 September 1880, Page 3

RAILWAY EMPLOYES BENEFIT SOCIETY.

The quarterly meeting of the above society was hold in the accountant’s office, Christchurch railway station, on Thursday evening, the 23fd iastant. Mr Heaton occupied the chair. After the report was read, the secretary (Mr A.E. Schultz) called the attention of the meeting to the untiring energies of the central committee in framing a new code of rales which would to all intents and purposes be practicable to the end of time. He (also stated that great credit was due to up-country stewards, who had evinced great interest in the society’s welfare, thereby ensuring its good and steady progress. The new rules were then read and approved of. The balance-sheet of the past quarter showed —subscriptions due, £IOB2 14) 2d ; expenditure on sick payments, doctors’ salaries and accounts, £336 5s ; cash in hand sub-com-mittees, £l6 16s Id; cash in °f Now Zealand, £331 9s Id ; arrears, £348 4s. The secretary, in explanation of the Arrears being sc heavy, considered it was occasioned by the agitation which had been prevailing among the employes as to the new scale of wages, and he wished to impress upon the members, now that this question had been decided, the ad visability of paying up and keeping themselves good upon the books, as the privileges the society affords would prove a groat boon to themselves and families in case of necessity. A vote of thanks was accorded to Messrs Ollivier and daw, the auditors to the society, A vote of thanks to the secretary and chairman terminated the meeting.