WAIRARAPA CALEDONIAN SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 6 November 1882, Page 2

WAIRARAPA CALEDONIAN SOCIETY.

■lThe annual meeting of the above' Society was held at the Club Hotel on Saturday evening last. Present-Messrs' iiowes, Hill, Perry, Fitton, Sellar, lorns, ;Hogg, and Payton. • i Mr W. Lowes having been voted to the chair, the minutes of the ing were read rind confirmed. 1 :l i . : Mr W. Sellar Secretary reported that there had been a steady increasrof members during the past year. The sale of privileges last year waß not a success, and for this reason their financial position was hardly as good as it would otherwise have been. Their receipts for the past year amounted to £lo2lßs, and their expenditure £ll7 14s lOd. Their subscriptions in arrears amounted to £23 2s, and their debit balance .was f3 8a; They had'lost during the past year by,death two old members Messrs 0. A. Vallance. and J. E "hompson.-l (. V ;j '• :! The Chairman said that considering the adverse.,circumstances 1 untlor which the .sports "were held last T ? ar the Society had' reasotj for congrntulation. ' iHe wouldhe balance sheet subject to ■ lir'Bill eecurided the motion, which ,waa v •' '• j ;The Chairman then called upon the meeting to elect a President. It would, .hesaidj be difficult, to find a uentleranh.to give to the duties;of;that office the attention which their late President, Mr 0. A. 'Vallance, had bestowed on,them. ■ Mr Fitton proposed Mr Lowes as Presk; dent, Mr ;Lowes,he Baid,,wasjth^, first ' President b.f ; ,the..Society : wh.en,; it was 'ori»indly, cmislitiUe(}ij aii(J was fatniliar -jv.i»h.tliQ..workiof,• ' | t: \Thejr!iresoliitioni;iW(ia tseconded liyiiMrj i .'Hill and carried unanimbuslyiiiijjaiJ.iilrh •] |Mr Lowes,, in acknowledging tha com- I pliment, said that he 1 would sooner have i seen tome other gentleman who had been ] continuously a member of the Society ( appointed as President. ■ On the motion of Mr Kayton, seconded ] by Mr Perry, Mr J. C. Vallance "W»» i elected Vice-President, i

.Mr W, Sellar was re-elected Beoratary on ihdmotioaof theCbif

man, and the following committee of directors was appointed, viz.W, 0, Buchanan; W, H; Boethtfm7HrH?Bßs. ,%m> A. Biah, L W, .Gave, j. Dram* morid, FittovF.'Gwj, A, ,'W, HoggrJ; lotQßj J; Livinwlonej-Jamei 'Macm, Jno. Macara, H, MoMaster,D. 'MoMaiter, J, Peyton, W, Perry, A, Stewart, and T. L. Thompson, •fjltfM -reaolyed that selection-of RWjfadstfir sports be 'to committee, but that ic be a recoramenda- / ' tion'ttf ihe'ra to appoint ja veniimt to the centre of ih6 Hbwl/\Wr Perry, offered a' ground -in Bannister-it, in the event of there' difficulty in securmif one.>„ ■' ■ i : The following judges wereMßieleoted: W. Perry,,F..Gray;, jj. Livingstone; H. MoMaßters, T. L. Thompson; W Harvey; and T. Brown. Messrs A,. Eikins,,T. iHilljaiid were appointed starters; Messrs Fitton, Hill, : and loms a ground :commi(tfie.;~Mesßrs •Macara, Payton, and Perry, a band and lunblieoh committee; and Messrs Lowes, Hogg, and Fitton a committee to prepare a .programme to be submitted to next meeting. ' Messrs lorns and 'Eittbm *e?e elected as auditors, and the. adjourned. . .. .1