The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-17 00:00:00

Ancient Order of Foresters.

ITALIWELRLY METING OF THE SOUTH-

WESTERN DISTRIOT,

Domina, This Dal,

The balf-yeerly meeting of tbe delegates of the
Courts comprised in the South-Western Distr.lot wee
hold to-day (Monday), under the presidency of Bro.
White, D.D.S., the sloe-chair being taken by Bro•
Rcee, D.S.O.R.
The number of delegates present were about 150.
Bro. Ranger (Salisbury) and Bro. Shag*ld (Dor-
chester) were appointed tellers.
Tits minutes of the District Committee, with the
balance sheet and aoosunts, and the report of the
trustees on Invested capital, were presented.
The report contained the fullowing inters:Aim
Information :

Ramo= Barrnasei,—Most 'distorter, Progress oon-
Manes to be mads. The Courts opened in the early part
ol the year aro rapidly addicts to their numbers. our com-
plete muster roll being 15,614 as against 15.360 last
Quarter. so that in the peat three mouths our extension
has retuned the gratifying figure of &Si We have just
opened new Courts at Hinton Ammer and Cadman, each
of them in a most desirable spot. The Death liabilities
hare been extooldiuglY heavy, our expenditure amounting
In £11,23 10a as mann £967 in the oomspondlog period
of lasit year. The late High Omit Meeting wag attended
Wis znty.four delegates from the South Western
whose influence enabled us to *mare
O well deserved reoogoltiou of meritorious services
In a vote of the High Court la •••••••••1•••••
With orbleib a portrait apt memoir of our
esteemed colleague, Brother Charlet Marshall. is t ) appear
in the ltisoellany. But the event which interests
official in the Order was the abolition of tits qui nopennial
return and analysis Of Sickness and mortality. The Act
of Parliament which dispecses with the great labour
required of our secretariee in the preparation of this
document was the outcome of • conference in London.
attended on behalf of the south.weatern district by your
district secretary, and convened at the instance of the
London Friendly Society, whose servioes we ask you at
the ensuing meeting to cordially recognise.
Loths 05 Boaocou Rams —Very little props*, has yet
been made by the Local B Ards of Shirley and Alverstoke
In ceiling up the amounts offered them on loan, from the
funds of our Comas, and it is therefor* with considerable
satisfaction that we have been enabled to issue a special
circular, indicating soother mode by which • large pro-
portion of the savings of our Courts may be immediately
Invested on a like security.
Iscoug Tex..—The question of the amounts deducted
for Income Tax from the payments made to the Court. by
grey of interest bag not escaped our attention. Finding
It inspowdble to overcome the fathom'se and mysteries
of red taps, your district secretary proposed, at the late
High Court Meeting, • resolution upon this subject, and
the ixecative Council am now instructed. in conjunction
with kindred societies, to take stem to free our Institution
from this obnoxious impost
The D.S. (Bro. Drea) spoke strongly against the
present mode of investing their money in the Post,
aloe, but pointed out how much more prottable it
was to invest in Local Bosnia and the securities of
borough rates. It would not be his fault if in twelve
mouths Imam there was • single £lOO left in the
Poet-office. If It remained there it would only be the
fault of the courts themselves. Be pointed out
several instances of the wisdom of altering their
present mode of investment. He mentioned a owe of
importance in which Court 1271 (Tareham)
at depositod the whole of their fends in Console, and
last week they decided to reinvest it on the rates of
Southampton. The Console were bought during the
Crimean War at 84, and last week, on selling at
pa, they cleared MO. They would now receive 225
more inerese, and, besides t=tite position of that
omit was £l,OOO heti': on val
The Trustees' report on the property of the district
was read and adopted. It showed the total amount
hoisted to be £15,717 Os. 7d., and the amount of
interest received since the last report to be 2435 ie. 81
The fallowing is a summary of the financial statement •
,_. penseal fond. £17057 lei. 31: W. and 0. fond,
sa.me. ilit ; Management fond, J:260 4a. Bd.; Lifeboat
In; Goode fund, £29 In 3d,' Distress fund, AM
. *mum not presented. F 96,114 ; ditto. F 97. Ali:
ditto. rico, £l4 ; ditto, FlOl, SA 10a ;di
pm. eat ; TotsA 218.515 113 s. 5.
Kortpese—sdouas loroPertY. .0.617 10.,: Corporation
bends. £1958 Se. 11d. • Watts Memorial Hall, £500,•
Atversioke Local Boe,sf, £2 473 6..8d. ; Seeley Burial
1 2560 ,
__• Bouroverooro, Local Board, L 300; TIT
Ifern Council, Bournemouth Bartel
hd and Counues Bank, £1,859 lls. 34.' do;
6,533, Al lie,; ditto. 6 ni. £9 Os. It • ditty'
R 7 19s. Id. ,
.• ditto. 15,911. £8 6s. 41.' ditto: (Oil,
lie. a *ditto. e,voi. £7l3a 6d.; total, £17.815 18s. 6d,
The tors reported as follorre:—" Having carefully
magma all books, docurporo• and 'maws. of as
eseretary and treeaovorr !owe 02 owtify to their cormotemes,
eed ales ee ens *amitosis manner in which the acrionate
pre kept. At the rill*e of the dietrkt solicitors, Itraers.
Pegges,Perrls, and Smith. we have carefully examined the
"eyes. masigaie deeds, and find them very sattsfactorn
ell interest due baTillif been paid excel,' ing one, which we
gessorsably believe will be paid Wore the District Mete
leg. We also took the bank book to the Cecina and
Counties' Bank for verification; the same has been mad*
up, welling a balance of ALMS lls. 3.1., of which amount
seeds are in preparation for the investment of £755 on
illeieUftW of freehold ProPerty at sow cent In isooviusion
we are pleased to ocegratutato the &audit on the gain in
the funeral fund during the oast half-yem.loa, receipt,
ever the expeuditure being £416 it 6d., and the Interest
Da mortgagee Mfg ss. 3d.. making • total gain ol
£532 9s. 91.-010e05 R. S. Pasack Sec. Court
Illicatht Cowmen. P. 0.14, Court MI.
Relief cases were then gone into. The Committee
of Mthagement asked the opinion of the District
Meeting se to the mums to be adopted with regard to
Court COM, Northolapel, from which the District
flearetary, after repeated application, had failed to
obtain the financial return and bathos» sheet Le 1881,
the Court being In conewpsence liable to suspension,
and its Akers -liable to prosecution. The 1).8. said
be had maiii,ed a statement, but could make nothing
of it, The only thing be oould understand was that
the total funds of the Court, although it had been in
existence for six years, amounted to £65 31. 74., the
whole of which was in the hands of the tremor's., and
upon which no interest had erer been roc:aired. The
D.S. did not wish thorn to take the extreme measure
of suapending the Court and prosecution. He sag-
Er-they should render assistance to the secretary of
ed
Court in the management of its affairs by Bro.
Whitcomb* and Bro. Bozall.—This was duly author-
ized by the meeting.
Tile D.S. then reported steps had been taken In
eaoardarioe with the resolution of the last meeting to
free, from the tharge of Income Tax, the amount.
- received by the Courts in the shape of interest on their
Invested capital, which he was sorry to say bad been
aneneowsfuL At the High Court Meeting he moved
that the Executive CAunoll should take the matter in
band and should seek the essistacce of other societies,
.so that a better state of things should be brought
tabout. He wail a great nuisance, but there was no
'help for It, and the matter must be put off for a time,
/though he had no doubt the Government would accede
. to their desires in the owl.
, The D.C.R. moved "That this meeting congratu.
. Was our respected Brother, Charles Marshall, Same-
' Miry of Court 4217, licoste, upon having at the recent
High Court Meeting achieved the honour and
_rthrtinction of being enrolled amongst the worthies of
! the Order in being selected for the Publication of his
{portrait and memoir in the Foresters' Miscellany."
' The E.D.C.B. esoonded tbs. motion, which was
/add Oa Ole room' Fire.

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