The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-09 00:00:00

thanks to him for dntlea end swifts long, faithfully,
smikonsly, and kindly rendere!—that Mr. Oivio. te4y
emotion, aimiatent secretary, you I also continue 10 to
set Per another year at lost —(aord at•e). lie (Mr.
Moyer) wished to thank theiabot . in the nano of the
emgety—(hear, hear).
The Rev. Pr...beel•rry &rah ireend,d.the °roue°, ,u,d
endorsed tv..ry cod br Flays'. nay Ware
very fel t us. ato in 'comic.; the SR •1061 of the eremite i• 4,
the houorary a 1.04 'Lod th., real working ego en s(
.nd beon,von'moy thanks you, dee to thtm for the
rerviees they halt so ably performed (aoplaarao,
The Lev. O. W. IliaegaN iaid thee bad Mail very
kind VI re-led t him, but thi,y would hay, heen much
more hint it they bad not 440 e se—(langhter). Ile
seitslely did begin to feel eometitues that he was
Itataiag %Mae too old for 4 the redone work. In
whieb he Tuts engaged ; aid th.t Ito Friendly
gniety ea , a rirt,Colllfiv 410. .111 I.lia to hmv, ?. do
with ;c if ire 0,41 4.. coy )000g. • ter .on
w, u,l cox I mar i :0 tar,. hi, 1.1,0 e.
1.1.0 w e .1... re cusp., to wolfram* Aim then
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b.maelf. At thu mime titno 3•long as h. warn enabled
to do soy work for the seeleir he should always feel
bound to do it, net only becauso to imiudderod the
soul ty ono which with all i fault: was doing an im-
mense deal of gmei to t.,,e labouring poor, bet also
b cense Lo felt it was a atrree inheritanee and logaey
:.miele 1 over to him from .f the very boat of men,
and one who wee most hone 6f.:d art respeeted so long
cc it ple.s..d OA to keep hie, alive —the tutu to chum
'I ey owent the foundation ..tier tie i red
cue et'. a—their ..xoeUent deu, goo.), old frilled Cu ales
Poreber—(applagee).
Yr. (1. li. ()Avis mid be hedged to thank them for
having on the twentieth occau...i. 0 -en kind °Dour', to
sleet him at its6i6teat secrett-y, uad he hoped he might
take it es evidence tSat they were ratiefied wit his
put ,erviedi—(applause). There were • few things in
the roles which he did not wish altered, but he wanted
them to be attended to by the stowarde. By the 26th
rule any member after evolving 12 week. sick pay
had to allow beak one dare sick pay in every week in
Bee of kb s ordinary sick-psy 'attribution. It was not
put " sink-pay contribution' in the rule, but his "usual
seatributioo, what iver that may be." That had been
understood ey some to Include hie death-pay, and In
feet all his contributions whatever be inAtred for. But
it was not nu, mei he took that opportunity of cal log
%h., etewerda' s'eention to it, that death pay, being an ,
ebtietly .P; a-ate benefit, we. of ammo to DO kept up ,
during tickers.. Tee next thing he wished to mention •
w6s teat wine stewards In making out their oontribu• :
tics area,. eepecially with regard to sick p ay, often
utellkd to numbers and Vie Cloritiau name., and
agar year t at mosted a groat deal of extra work on •
the part of he Ileatet %Dial to make out to whom the
Lick benefits hid been ',easily paid fur instance, if a
beano') bad bell a dozen person+ of the same surname
with the Christian name of Frederick, and h.lf a desen
fainelere of the some etwourie called Frances, if the
steward, were nue ....fat to put the number and
Fretted* or Fretless in fell am the ease might be, be
did not know whether to pet the pay to the Lidice or
to the geetlemen—(heare hem, and laughter). lie
wiahed teenier,' to ask the stewards to Alvo in all cases
the teambere and Christian and surname, of the members
In full, One thing bad been eecided by the trustees
which he wished to mention ha it would rave a peat
deal of writing. He was written te by one of the stew-
ards to say they had a stek member In Jersey, and to wit
whether pey allowable in the Channel !shied,.
The trustees bed derided It win. if ruentionod it that
the Meyer& might be prepared to grant shah pay to
members there without any dlilleelty or teeellia. With
the regard to the formation of branehm he wished to say
thought it wad I be well if the treetops +milt not recag-
aim any new hrauch unless formed strictly In accords'ss
with t.O rates of the society. The rules required that
there should so many honorary •ld benefit members,
and that arra they ahould appoint a steward and
surgeon. Now In the Fewent ook district they had
appotated a steward, but not a surgeon; and the °thet
day one of t'ulir members wept from the Wareham

bra-
nch to reside in the Powerstook deleted, of (*UM
expecting to get in that branch all the hematite of the
society, but be found he oonld not got sink pay, and
therefore had to be re-transferred to the Wareham
branch. Such • branch, if it could properly be eel ed
one, very badly represented at all events the society,
for it merely had • few endownamtr. It waa tru the
society provided from AZ to £5O endowments for
apprenticing children at the age of fourteen, or
Netting them forward In the world at twenty-one, or
from £2 to 220 death pay fora widow and ebildree, aid
for peadoners, but he took it all them a ivantaioni wore
but anoudary in imenparson to the obi .et of giving
slob pay and providing medico atteidauce, a 1 I
fore he he said that • branch formed without molt benefits
ought not to be recognised as such—(bmar, hear). With
regard to the stewards, he had another thing t men-
tion. The sick pay papers, gigged by the surgeon before
giving the pay, very often were allowed ti run inte
another onarter, whereat each papa should be rtsiesle
confined t) each three months, and • new one abelld
be issued at the beginning elevens quarter. Kessectiog
the case brought forward by the the Dorchester branch
the man in question always seemed to him te he rather
• "slippery customer." He had seen him working
with • sped* much better than he siould—(langhter)—
bet when he saw the assistant-mteeterr belting
at him his arm was at his beak diraetli—(l.uth•
ter) and he immediately don became so
thoroughly 11l that he was obhgod to leave the
work be was about altogether. The same man was
found drunk in the street, sod the police were kind
enough to take him to the leek.up till he got bolter.
Ho reported the matter to the surgeon, as no doubt the
man expected he should, and his sick pay was stopped
for some weeks. Two very good and promising branches
were formed lest year—one metier the patrousge of the
K v. 3. E. Percy Sloan, end tee otuer wrier General
kiicisel eli Deel wore t:oint coy w.l:. He
wi.b.dts my a wit, ;0 the SWV,A, 1,6 ni u‘kili:analser.
There were a number of those that went ou year after
you without seeding in anew proposal—be would stall
them stand-atill branches, but that ooald not racily be
so, as Ina satiety of t AI kind U they wore not preg:ems.
log ,Lltly .No 4 luring ground.
Tots year he should treat them es he heard a a.,rtitin
driil.sergeant speak to his men. Said ho " Tune
area lot of you when told to toot to the right always
go to the left: I shall not call out your names this
time, bah the next time I shall." He would nut mention
the ateadatill branches this year, but U It occurred at
the next anniversary he should make out a list android
It out—(bear, hear, and laughtm)—bat with a viiw of
avertiagsnah • state of Wogs he would give a premium
of £2 to the steward who shall ferroue his braneti by
tho greeted number of members from the age of 15 to
41) years in the rnsuleg 12 mot tkul—(applause)—and be
hoped that would Winos them to pay • hide more
attention to the matter. lo catielasion he again
thanked them for the renewal of their oonalenee.
The Rev. C. W. El:lowa' said the question of
glowing sick pay le Jersey was referred to the
trustees, and as the rules said "In Eogl and
and Wales " they had not mush dielonlty in ream•
boring enough of r by to kaow the Channel
Islands were within those ; but then they were
asked to allow it in Sootland and Ireland, end well
disposed as they might be to mmibers who went to
those parts they could not sonselentiously eenelude
either of those ormotrke wee in "England and Wales"
—(laughter), He proposed the re-election of Herbert
William, Esq., as treasurer, and of Mr. E. Cross and
Mr. J. T. Shale as audit" with thanks for their
peat sorriest'.
Ifx. G. H. DAVIS seconded, and it was carried.
The Rev, 0. W. unional raid as to the certificate
he eat afraid it had been laughed out of court;
tillage had done the best ho could, and proposed to
refer it to the rub-oonimitteis,
Is was finally arranged thet Mr. Harvey and others
should be consulted thereon, and the design be amended
accordingly.
Ir. Herrn intimated that be Mel think much of
the dl. Glies'ebraneh for giving up the festival because
mit seemed "no breech had acoepted their invlt Woo,"
and he said they Issued no programme, and he oontruted
the emednee el the Odelfellows and Foresters at sock
a time. He thought they ought to have asked a
seiglabeering brush to undertake what they found too
aseh for khan, and referred to the .sumessfitl &uni-
verse:km they had had at I werne Courteney.
The Bay. 0. W. BINGHAM &aid he never attended an
annivermry that went off so thoroughly well as that
of last year.
kfr. J. F. IsiODOCS proposed, and the Rev. Preben•
tag BOND matioded to a retool thanks Mr. Floyer for
ti
the chair.
Mr. Icons responding said ho was glad to do any-
thing he scald to promote the welfare of the Dorset
Friendly Satiety, and hoped that ear they might
awry out their anniversary so as to exceed even the
wishes of Mr. Harvey, and than it would be a mum's'
indeed—(bear, War, and laughter).
The meeting then ended.