NEW PLYMOUTH FRIENDLY SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 101, 18 April 1908, Page 5

NEW PLYMOUTH FRIENDLY SOCIETY.

Tile annual meeting of tile V-u ll\mouth tri.-n.lh Society was hehl on Thiirs4av. l!ro. N. (Joldiu;; occii|.icd the chair. There were about iilty iii.-ni!i. rpre^Bt. The statement »»f account- -bowed t« ■ amountiug to CV-'t tid. ineluding tW 1"- <*l lirougiit forward from the previous year. Tile expenditure amounted to C2U4 \tnji a credit balance of €. M J 11> Oil lo early forward. The I'rwident. ill pre-entni}; his ailnun 1 report, said he wa-i plea-cd to sl.Hc the soeietv was not iti any way to the leeward- The sick pay had escorted £- m - and they had unlortnu atl iy lost by death two of their younger meiubers (luring the veal -liios. .Stn-et and James. These ainoiints had been provided for partly out of capital and partly out of revenue, The total ca-h worth of the society stood at t.'2l'l-l —i-iual to CK) 10s il per inembei. and being an iucrea-e of ISs Sd fr member oil the amount ol last \cai. This «,i- very sati-l'aclory. Ho extended his syiiniathy to the families of the two brothers who had been called fro n their midst.

A notice of motion ua- pi'oposeu '►>" lir-. 1L r.-p|M-re!l lollop: "That the ipic-tion oi in \\iU> ;>)' *i» I'lro vvitli other .-oeietieS j re HienilMT"" Ix-inj! eM Nlpt I roiii I'er- for ho-pilal uealni'-nt ami fee.- lor i-'ii I ruUa'ion- aiid ojM'ratim- !»«• revon-ider«'«l J by the *'N-irtv." Alter lengthy ar»u- i on-fit tlie following aiueiidment wa- pi" | "That the »uciety adopt a fund of its Ott'li to provide fee* lor iheir wire.- or families in l|o>pil;t). and ai-o to provide for consultation- tuid such levy not to e.\e* ( j i per member per quarter."' On motion taken l>oth the motion and I the amendment were negatived. ! The »-)<-Wi«->n of oflirrrs rP-ult«-i| a- 10l- j in... C. (k : lr«-a- I r. Up-. K v jrj'loii: b.,.«rd man;.-. - • iu'»». r.i.-, 1-i.ie-n. • . «.Hi-. L. I'i-.1-"II. A. M.ii-Ik -I. Nojti r. -m.. and 11. I'ep|«' i: amlitni*. MrIT. JI. .Jack-on. | A vote oi thank' t«> Dr. Walker arid y lii- deputy for Iheir .-erviee* during the I year was carried unanimously. The was instructed to write Dr. Walker e.\pres 3 ing the eondolenw with him iu bereavenieni Votes of thank- were I )j«* outgoing officers and a special resolut ion ol thank- was accorded liro. X. (.ohTinjj f«-r his mauy years' -ervice a- pre-i----d» nf of the Societv,