MASTERTON HORTICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2639, 5 July 1887, Page 3

MASTERTON HORTICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY.

The. annual general meeting of the. obo£i was held at the Central Chambers" onjMtiday evoning. There was a fair ttt™dance of members present, presided over by Mr \f. 6. Beard. The President, in his opening remarks, spoke very strongly on the loose manner • in which the business of the Society had been conducted during last year, and also regretted that there was not. a- larger number of members present He-hoped those who were there would put ; their' - shoulders to the wheel and make tho ihows to bo held during the coming year SB successful as they had been,in years gone by. If they allowed.things to go on n the same .way an thoy.had done during ihe past twelvemonths they xrould not ex--pet the Society to prosper, but lapse'inn. tateof laziness and insignificance. He expressed the h^felfcin not being' able to devote more .time and attention in furthering the interests of the Spcioty, but the nature of his business alone pre-" j Tented him from domg this. If they ex-, .j Eeoted the Society to nourish they would ave to place a'more energetic person at the head; The whole success of the So-? oiety deponded upon the-persons they' selected as their Presidentand Committee. In conclusion he expressed a;hope that they would select* person more capablefchsMlmselfto fill tho positionof PreaiHa«L Ho then called - oit tho Secretary toTeau tho balance - shM,: which" Bhowed;' the liabilities to be-#llßs 4d. Owing to the'Secretary - not having a copybf'the minuteai-.of the last annual' hot having .beon audited, the I 'adoption was hold over'until thViipxfc meeting; of "the So; •siety. •■.'• '■ ' •'••'"-••■'■• - ."•' : • MrHathawsy,' who had tendered his to hold olfico until the a 1 : "^■.;/'■'.' '

balance sheet had been audited. • The electfon of officers too thon proceeded with, resulting Asfollowß:—President, W..G, Beard; Vice-President, Mr T. Parsoiiß: General Committee—Messrs A! Elkins, 111. Tayler, T. Osborne, S. Wickenden. Collotte, Everett, L. J. Hooper, T., Dixon,; G; M, Park, D. Papworth,'and Ji Fitzgerald. It was decided that the. Spring Show •be- held -on .Thursdays Wth November, and tne.'Autiimn ISh'dw'o'nthetotted"; 4iQßday in March, 1888. • ' : ' .'; Th,e following, were appointed.a subcommittee to drtiw up and submit.a catalogue at- a- meeting -of the Society to be held on Monday next Collotte, Osborne, Papworth, Tayler, Gardener and Park. It wnsresolved that'the office of Secretary and Treasurer .be combined, the election' for which to take.place at the next (meeting. The meotins; then adjourned.