HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2147, 12 January 1881, Page 3

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

A special general meeting of the members of the above society was held in the Agricultural and Pastoral Association rooms at 8 o'clock last evening, to consider the action of the committee in selecting a monumental stone as a memorial to the late Mr John Greenaway. There was a numerous attendance, and Mr E. O. J. Stevens, president of the society, occupied the chair. The Chairman said the special business ot the meeting was known to all present. The loss of a secretary and a friend hod been experienced, and it was felt that the valuable services rendered by the late John Greenaway should not pass unrecognised, especially, too, as he was one of the founders of the society, and he thought the reeagnition should assume a lasting form. The committee had only the power to recommend, it was for the meeting to give effeot to such recommendation. For this reason the present meeting had been called. The committee were of opinion tbat the sanction of the friends of Mr Greenaway should be obtained to whatever they might decide upon, and it was satisfactory to know that the proposed form of memorial was agreed to by those was also mooted that the society should give a Greenaway prize at future exhibitions, and that two portraits of the deceased gentleman should be painted, one to be presented to Mrs Greenaway, and the other to be retained by the society, but Mrs Greenaway intimated that she wished to establish such a prize herself, and as no photograph was at hand to paint from, the committee had only the alternative to erect a monument, subject to the sanction of the meeting. It had been proposed that this should be done by subscription, but it was thought the society should find the money. In conoluiiion, he felt the great loss they had sustained very keenly. They had lost one who gave good advice, whose loss they deplored as a wise counsellor and a valued friend. Ho would move—" That the committee! be authorised to expend the sum of £4O for the erection of a suitable monument on the grave of the late Mr Greenaway." Jhe motion was seconded by Mr D. Nairn, and carried unanimously. The memorial will be a marble obelisk on a plinth of native stone, and the sum voted will include cost of kerbing.