FEILDING BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 88, 14 August 1878, Page 3

FEILDING BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

The abore Society held its annual meeting on the 7th instant, m the Corporation Office, the weather being so severe that it was feared the Schoolroom would hare been too cold for. the purpose. The chair was taken at 5.30 • p.m, by A. P. Halcombe, Esq., vicepresident, who opened the meeting by - informing the members that the term for- which tho late Executive were elected terminated on the 3rd instant, and, therefore, it was not for the officers i^°; tender their resignation, as their had absolutely lapsed ; and he called upon the late hon. secretary to read the annual report of the doings of the Society, for the year .1877-8, prior to any further 'business.' The hon. secretary then read the following re-' ' rporti— ' " ■■"; . ; -■ ■ ' • S BeiUing, August 3rd, 1878. .. ** Mb* yicm-PBEsrDBNT, Ladies, and ••:■ ' :; ";; / ' GBNTLBMEtf— . ■'■"''■'. "In malting my report of the Society's "work during the past year, I must first ■J congratulate the members upon their promptness on all occasions to render their best services to those persons W;ho unfortunately required aid from iihe ■ r benevolent. • ■ ; "V: ?•''>-•': : . .'•'""■''■". • " The rases coming under the imme''ate notioe of this Society during the ---jgß^year were only four m number, the heads of families ; but of three were persons with large families, who, _with;their children, were throw|jjntovdepp'.distress. , ■■** The first case was that of working 7 , swag-raan, ( who was found m a whai*e '- at Awahuri,' prostrate from sever© illnessr The poor fellow was carried to •- -Feilding,' and attendedjby Dr. Jbhnuton, at. Government expense ; and the Robert . Wa>dr .Esq., haying interested himself to have the patient taken to the Wansanui Hospital, the Society provided the man with ~ Y warm clothing, and other matters suit- '■-! able' td his^ case, and lid went away m charge of the Constable, heartily thanking his benefactors. So that this man . repaid us-^-if not m money, at least m .^ thanks^ >" . : '-/■ "■ -• - ■' ' ' ' .- : " The second object of charity was that of the > "Widow ;•—-»-, wio was loft with ''n ; -lt^^;f^miiy.^dep.dn'4ent-.on ; her exer- " tionw v'riTnhappily^ she totally unable to make' tlie slightest effort to maintain iier;- fijxarge,^bjit . .Mrs Halcombe, on the part" of the Society, ably assisted b^^ made ;•'■'.-• an effort on behalf of these poof people, . and sent them (at their own express de- •-'; «ire be it to their friends m England, fully fitted with everything that could ba required on the passage home, which latter was also paid for. To this case the Hon. John .'£ Johnston, " mogfc generously subscribed £M>. . i The third case was that of a family whose male head was obliged to go away from Peilding from causes to which it is not necessary to allude here, suffice it to say that the Ladies Committee left nothing wanting m the way , offood, raiment, and railway fare. i : :, v Th^urthcase waathat of a labouring man named John Crook, an immi- • irrant, brpngTit out under the E. &C. Aid Corporation. This man suffered, from some internal disease, and on the - adrioe of his medical attendant, Dr. Johnston, the Society sent the patient to Wanganui Hospital, from which inttttutibn hewas remorod, at his own reriuest by hlis friends. The Benevolent Society were thus relieved from further i responsibility. I regret to add that Crook died shorty after his return home . from the Bospital. £ Since Noyember 9th, ;lß7B,[there: V;! lifts^oeenrio call upon the rfunds bf the , and, therefore, no occasion for Truly the people: of Feilid^ ing have cause to rejoice, when all are m such a position as to require no help V- except from the Great Giver of all good •■■ -things. v -'■: ; "The Society have sustained a severe loss by the departure from Feilding of the Bey*" Robert McGregor, our late ! ~ president, and' the Rev> P. .- ;Wright i Jones, Tice-presiderit. It willr therelire, be incumbent on the Society to elect a president , officers, and also a JjAdies* Committee. ♦'Your faithful servant, X «'Edwakd H. Wbight, //.>/••...;•/; "Hon. Sec.;F.B. Society/* ; Tt. was; resblveji that the Secretary's 1 report be received; , ; ;■= > -..■:.- i . ; .^he vice-president then called upon '"■ 3fr James Whisker, hon. treasurer, for { ;. his report, and that gentleman handed v m the following , , : \ BAIANCE-SHKKT OF: THB FBIIiDiKO BE« " yavbiiki Sooibty, 1877-8. ; August 8, 1878^— ; • ; . Balance fromlwfc audit.,.. ..£l3 9,19 ■ - , Proceeds of lecture by Hon. -;. ■*:-.■■■■■■• t^.yF0x... .;............. 8 6 6 . Bubßcriptions per Mrs Hal- - - .. , ' €6nit*r- • , . 'Z' .'":.',.'. „ £Vfl6 8 : • Cask to Wi AJtkin for fare °* 'patf^Pt ,to .' .Wanga^-: :■".'-.■■"'■•" ~ vnuiH(Mpithl^-......_. a 0 0 '„,;•_ Bj^fenceifi Lands of hon. trea- -'—^ — 7 ,' ;" surer ... ............ ........£ls 16 3 : *\ (SignM) James Witiskeb, - PartedV ' " ; Hon. Treasurer. •"' ■-;; "? A^IV Hju^sCTB/phairmari. ;■■• ! '^; x ; IKe^oif e3t,Cs' That tlie report of the ■ be received and passed;" ". I ; , olthanks was passedHby accla- '^ inatfohfto ihe Rev. Ropcrt McG^regor^ .-* ;late president of the; Feilding Beaevbv ' Jent' S.pcietyi and to the late officers and ' ' bf^^^tlie Ladies' Cbmi»ittce. lfe ; Halcombe, then called the . 'attention of the. members of the Society to thfe faci that the widow of, the late John 7 Crbok^ the person referred tb m |Ke secretary's had received £ 100 \ ' f^m the Gbvcrnment Insurance t)epartmeht^ due on a. policy effected on "'■'" the life bf her late husband on his arriTal m thia settlement* and pointed out the desirabilitf bf the members impressing on their friends the benefits of fife insurance. " " ! Resolved, the Hon, WiHiaiQ Pox be elected president." " - ? < Resolved, "That Messrs A. F. Halembe and Charles Bray, sen;,, be rei ; : Resblved,. Mr James/Whiakcr ■■-,',' l>e re-elected hon. ttetwurer.'* • Resolved,. tt Mr Edward H. Wright be re-clef ted Bon. secretary." ; Resolved, '^Tliatthb ladies of the Society bei:reo,ucs ; ted to. Dominate a working coriimittee of sixj at leas t/ from their numbed* A vote of thanks to the Chairman «losed tb.6 ittecli»s^