The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-30 00:00:00

TEUI DORSET COUNTY YBIENDLY
SOCIETY.

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The annual meeting of this •0014117 was held an
Tuesday at the Shire-bail. Then was no procamsket
cc dinner, and only about hall a damn &liana wore
present. On the proposal of Mr. Player, nit., air
Talbot Baer, Bart., took the chair, and there were
also In Wender" the Bev. O. W. Binghant (the hon.
secretary), Mr. Davis (the hon. treasurer), Mr.
Bincleraley, Mr. Ban 4, the Rev. B. Ludlow, Mr. B.
Pearce, and others
Cason Bowater presented the report, and in doing
so remarked that at these last amenably they had
rather a fuller sodium than they had that day upon
the present occasion, the boisteni would, however, he
purely formal. The rennet was as follows :
" The swabs, of esseifices on die books at the close of
the year wan—Wales. 117111 ; imam. U.7—total. UM,
being • decrease in the number ef males Sig, and •
decrease of females 30 ne total number of members
ssisoliod during the year was 164ernmealmee were re-
instated. sad If were scrolled for bengal& blow-
mint., _amounting £l6l Oa ltd.„ we been paid olf. and
Off on 17 doges. llembors' isintlibnUoas in IW6,
Aga ; ditto in 1127. 314.—being a
decrease in ISTI of £516 17.. 731. Honorary subscript
lons
WM LislOs. ld. ; ditto in SSW 1 fd. —being •
decrease of sa. 7d. Oepital in 1307. Allaillf 7a OW. • ditto
In iSfe. SAM 19s- WA—being an inmates of Peta
Sick pay has been allqwed to ad males for MN weeks and
4 days. amounting to 5•044 16.. 81. ; and toll females for
613 weeke and 3 days, ainountios to £133 lii. 11E—wak-
ing a total pwiod of sicknew of 5994 weeks, and a total
amount of sick pay 4175 7d.. being • &crease of
sickness, as compared with 1306. of 169 weeks and 64
and • &cream of sick pay gag igs, ed. Assn," rod.
sickness :—Slatan 9 weeks and 11 dere for fails. 73-11741. ;
(*make, 15 each. and 41 days for £1 1.. Old. --showing an
increase on 1376 in the mos of males of tg dam but •
decreue with regard to females of 3 weeks and 63 days.
The summary of results is as follows :—Decreees in the
number at members. 304; ditto in members contributions.
mg 17s. 711 ; ditto in sick pay, £11116.. Id. ,• ditto in
bon. subscriptions. 5. 71. Increase in capital, DOI 7s Sid.
Under the peculiar and anxious circumstances of the past
year it could scarcely be expected that there would ban.
falling off in the number of members; but in other
respects tius report &mean to be not altogether nasetie-
factory. The Committee at Thimbles were sanguine
enough to hops that the new Mee and tables, which had
been with so great citation and anise. and were
agresA to at the special general me.alig held at the
beginning of teat December, would long ere this have been
wedged and put in form. They were, as was then
arranged, speedily laid before the eminent actuary Mr.
Finlawou, under whom advice they have been drafted,
sad,after having been approved by him with some trivial
miticaticsui, they wile forwarded. as tin law requite.,
to the Begistrer-13eneral far certilloaticia. • new
however, here arose. Ha required • further valiance oi
our candid= and prospects up to the mad of lam year to be
mad* on the beim of our new rules and tibia. This
valuation is now in progreee, and we trust may prove
conducive to • speedy certillostion of them. As scorn..
ever that le the awe the ambers will be duly sorbed of
it, and all needful seeps will heiminediately takento bring
the neer system into operation Whilst deeplarementggins
these enfonspeen and lairvitable delays, the
feet that they are in no way responsible for than, bat that
they have done everything in their Pewee to expediete
=Whoa In the ementime the mein, am hardly adman
the extraordbuiry increase of work imposed on the
amlenintownstary and his clerk in the preparation of the
documents whisk Wire DOONiary for the purposes of Iliath
as. valitatics. We have to Mink the arbitrators for
their patient investigation of • case referred to them from
Tiodsoon &reek which terminated, Irons lack of
seldom'. In favour of the member aepeshag. It will be
required, in order to comply both with the old and the
reeked /alma to elect • lUth arbitrator— • requirement
which had been unfortunately overlooked, and, but for
muted coecoesiota might have invalidated tho promo&
logs. We ought also to elect • presideat, in encesesion to
our genial and popular (Mead Sir ldward Baker. whose
recent lose threw so mach gloom over the proseediap at
our last anniversary; but possibly the society would prefer
ednerning that quake till the sksw ads. &me into
operatics.
After the reading of the report, Mr. Bingham said he
supposed he ought first of all to explain why there
was no annual festival. One reason was that no one
had invited them. They had not received an Invita-
tion from any branch in the county. At the same
time he thought that. under their parent uncertain
circumstances, it would hare been " wild" to have
had • festival. (Cheers) He coneidered it would be
almost certain the moiety would have to be called
together to arrange • new worm of procedure, and
therefor* he would suggest it would be better to post.
pens the election of • new President until than. They
had heard the report—such as it was. In it he had
endeavoured to set bet on them am precisely.. possible
the condition in which they were. He hoped One new
valuation would lead to the rules being at once
certified, and when that was done that they would be
able to commence operations on • new system
altogether. He moved that the report be received and
adopted.
Mr. Aorta, M.P., encoded the motion of his good
friend the Hon. Sec. It had been (hareem lied by
him as • not unsatisfactory report, and certainly so ,
long as they had a very conaidereble balance in their
favour that was • fact which no one could disputa. To
that extent at any rate they were doing well. The
Society had now been in existence 32 years, and if
there had been any prospect of their getting into
, difficulties they would have begun to hare shown
themselves by this time. (Haar, hear.) Thirty-two
; years was • long period in • man's life, and unless
member' had joined at a very early age sicknesses and
advanced age must have told upon the funds of the
society. No doubt the valuations that had been made
by the actuaries had not been altoget her satisfactory.
It had been often said you may prove anything by
„ figures, and really the longer he lived the more he
came to believe that assertion. (Hear, hear.) Figures
depended so much, indeed so entirely, upon • correct
bads that the question to his mind was whether the
actuaries in making the valuation had given full effect,
and took into oanideradon all the various dream-
dunes, and they were very varied and numerous, that
might arise in the management and in the operations
of • Friendly Society. There would arise cases in
which, from some source or another, men who had
contributed to the funds did not come upon them—on
the other hand some had passed away and others had
1011111 to other parte of the world and ceased to pay in.
Now the .question to his thinking was whether the
, actuaries had taken all those matters into considers-
tion, for one thing was quite =tan that so long..
' they had been in existence they had pin by every year
1 • very considerable sum. They had put by this year
• • sum of £BOO, and that was • great consideration, and
I sufficient, as far as he could see, to meet any great
of siclmem which, if it was to come would
re° " inZrived by this time. For himself he could
not look upon the state of the society with thedeepon.
&any some people did. Were there any crime for
such it must be of the character which attached to all
such societies. He failed to see there wasan
In the managennut of this society which distinguished
It.. regards its permanent security and safety froze
others and more pretentious societies. This he was
oonvinced had been carefully managed from the com-
mencement, and although it was quite true some of
their rules had proved • little too feeble those had
' been remedied. In conclusion the iambi.. member
r noonded the motion for the adoption of the report.
, It was carried unanimoualy.
Mr. X Plums licitly proposed the rennoticm of
the various Akan. The hearty attention t=l
, shown to the affairs of the was
; evidence that any re-orgenisation societyn society would
be carefully and duly wandered.
, Kr. HINDI/IL= 140311440 d the motion, which was
; carried.
, Oman BINOXAN replied as the hon. secretory, and
expressed
asa wish, which those present were dew to
he might soon be relieved of his duties as
, boa. seentary.
The appointment of Mr. Band —who kindly con-
sented to receive it—as one of the °nominee of run
was carried with acclamation, and the proceedings
closed.