ADJOURNED MEETING. Balance Sheet.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 333, 12 January 1889, Page 2

ADJOURNED MEETING. Balance Sheet.

The adjourned meeting of thevßoard, to receive the annual balance sheet, was held on Tuesday evening. Present : Messrg Gavin (chairman), Ilotfc, Lipsey, and Ahier, The following is a copy of the balance sheet for the year ending December 31, 1888, as laid on the table. :— . Kecejpts, 1887. £ r d Dec. 31, To Balance ... 39 11 8 1888, Dec. 3 1 , To Receipts from Baths 487 7 9 Deposits ... 2 0 0 Advertisements in"Guide 7 5 6 i Total £536 4 11 : Expenditure. 1888. £ 8 tl Dec. 31, By C.iretakord ... 276 10 0 Miscellaneous ... 50 13 2 Printing and Advertising 57 4 ti Ironmongery ... 15 19 10 Painting ... 5 7 0 Timber ... 1 12 7 Wages (day labour) ... 19 15 4 Insurance ... 5 0 2 [ Calling ... 215 6 Improvement of Grounds 80 7 9 Drinking Spring ... 110 3 I No. 2 Bath ... 12 6 Deposits „. 2 0 0 Balance .„ 16 6 4 i Total £536 411 Asbets at Dec. 31. £ h d Balance in B. N. Z. ... 16 6 4 Due for advertisements inserted in "Guide" 13 13 0 Due by Te Aroha Soda and Mineral Water Co., for " overflow* water taken away by them \ for Bix months ending , Dec. 31st, say ... 2 10 0

£32 9 4 Resolved that the balance sheet, as read, be received. Presentation of Fower Bulbs ; The following letter was read from Mi J. C. Firth ; Palace Hotel, Te Aroha, Jan, Bth, 1889. Hon. Sec. Domain Board, To Aroha. Sir,-7j-With the view of assisting the Board to increase the attractions of the Domain, my wife, Mrs J. C. Firth, desires your acceptance of a case of bulbs of vaiious kinds. These bulbs can be planted in beds properly prepared now, or at any time within t|ie next two months Mrs Firth also desires me to say that in the proper season she will present to you a quantity, of tulip and hyacinth tyu^bs. I remain, Sir, "^ours truly, J. C. Firth.

Resolved, that a letter of thanks be sent Mr and UvTrs Firth for their forethought and kindness in thus assisting to have the Domain made more attractive. Annual Meeting: The business forwhich the monthly meeting 1 had been adjourned having been trangacte^,, the Chairman referred to the mistake that had been made through the annual meeting for the election of Chairman, esc.. $xed by order m Council to be held pn the second Tuesday in December, not having been then held. He however, by the Public Domains Act held, office, until his successor was appointed. He desired to thank the members for the courtesy they had shown him, and for their assistance during the past year, and now begged to tender his resignation, in order that a Chairman might be elected for the .present year. • *' ' l -Mr Ilott : This appears to me a most unnsual and irregular, way t of d,oing busH ness Mr ( ,Chajrman, seeing^.no' ,notice of §ny kind whatsoever has' been given of an intGntwi^^rtitute this nieetitig lor th 8, J «H««-fil^w)i.'v*iii ich ah ou I d sw*v» *wu ■ !^M^ej^lb ( er. J >IV ' ! : Jgtera to.

spr^nt v rriy resigning a tVany 'meeting!;^ f 'Mr ,'Hotfc :J[ am%i|ll a^are oJtthatA is the subsfcit^tinftmem? ( etin^2for ifisS fanjial dhe ipio&MbypoAmeifi Hot' the election of '^itaouJS whiJhtf^DJeot. Wlfsho^hlfh^irman' resign /and the Board procfed to elect a Chairman f,or another year at the termination.,, ,q£ , pn. ordinary meeting ; without, ahy°n<)tic9 whatever of such j intention having Iwen given, and in ths absence, of one ,oi the, members,. Mr ducted^ byjftjjy_publip..body^before r-,and«. r -,and«. decidedly object" to" it, and shall "retire from the^meeting^rathW /than.Be^ a ; party to it. There, is surely no good reason why a special meeting could jnot - bje^cpnvenctT for^thej p^rposo of .accepting the Chairman's psignati ( oa election^ jOr-jwhy ( it cannot; ptand ove^ until the -neitt^ mopthly meeting, so that .the, members may/be notified that will bo then brought fprward. > t \> , Ifa Lipsey : I propdse.'that we accept Mr (rajvinfs^esigrjation; as Chairman, c.-re Mr jllqtt,^hpnj w|tl?dre\f from the mee^ng, „ , . , Somp' dispUßsion took place after.Hr Ilottj le.ft, as to the po'sitjon ' of affairs', and it '^aB nltjmately 'decided 1 not to proceed with tlip election of Chairman at tha|; meetjng, , The, Board Jbhen rose.,