The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-22 00:00:00

Contributiom of Member* IST2
~ ~ 1.'71

liding an increase In 1572 of
Honorary Subecrlptene In len
„ Isil

Being Increase in IS7 of..
Capital in the year 1671 .. • •

i-t-rri

&nag an int:MIMI 111 ib;2 476 11 3i
Sick pay du boon allowed to 676 Make for 6,110 wock. and
da)a, anaounUng to £2,241 1. 1044. and la Waal.. for 479
reek. and no day, anionsung to 4116 47. 101., o.AIN: the
total perhal ef .Ickno.en. 69 ergots and 6 daya, and the tdal
amount •.1 %ask pay £2334 141 Sid. being a d.o?ro.s 4.ak•
0r..., c..copared with the year 1671, of 30 weeks and 1 days,
bolos increase of arc pas' of Cat 16..11d.
The anninary of mune In. follows :
Decrease ha the numb. of %mbar,

iIK/01•11 In Metubon cootributioe•
Nemo* lo Hoy Subncriptiono..
Itecreowe to Oati tot

4 a. d.
81 8 01
1.5 3 6
U 31
161 18 II
. .

It will be permit ed that th• type expressed In let year •
repors that the decrease 13 the number of member,. might be
arrested to. not been realised, though this Is soarcely a mount
of surpnee, in,dering the recent ousturbanees In the lebour
mutet, sad the large amount of emigration from the county
during the paat )cur. On the contrary It appears to on that
the feet of U.• deficiency being no small. and of Um number of
male members he.ing even increased, nothwithstanding these
' adverse Influences, afford a strong proof that the moiety has
tot lost its told on the good•will of the classes for whom benefit
It ••• established, mil In whom interest It still, we venture to
think, deserves to be suppreted. We are not aware the% the
Royal Gnimiesion on rrdly Socleare hm ait yet lamed any
report which no likely lobe of much value in the recision of the
rules ; but the time has now arrive' for another quioquennial
.alimuce, wheel it may be deemed a fitting mas no hr re-ed.
Justine both our rule. and tables, and bringing ourselves, If
pmaible, more closely into accord with neighbouring societies
estab.ishied on similar principles, alai with whkh it would be
pecuLlarty advantageous to Lily ourselves. when the babel. of
the working clamps have become much mon migratory thsa
herebdore. Branches of the National Deposit Society bare
been lataly formed in some parts of the county. They have,
hoe-.v,, bought for no connexion with us. Whether It would
be wen to meat • depalt class upon our society, as ban been
done In other countim will be • point for coma:tendon In re-
arranging the ruka The enrollment card no emnedly doffed
by some of our millithen is now reedy and may be !supplied at
the cost of one Milling.

-E. W. BIXGRAN, Honorary Secretary.
O. H. DAVIS, Andetaat Secryeary.

litisoun said such was their report, and la
moving that it should be adopted, printed, and sir-
(Waled u naml, he would first explain bristly why
they were there on that omanoe rather then where
they were first advertisad to be—st ?impetus. It
appeared that the steward of Fleaperne, eho was
kind cough to invite the @misty there to a festival
this year, was not ewers of the opinions of certain
members of the branch, and when ho came to endeavour
to carry out his invitation and prepare for revolving
them, objections wore made by those be had incheatet,
and. in fact, they core no willing to have tee goohey's
meeting at ?thiperne. It seemed to him rather un-
fortunate certainly, for the same difficulty °marred
last year, and they had the same hicoareeienee—being
invited to St. Giles's, but amain ciroamotatocue
happened which precluded them from holding the
annual meeting at that place. But the fact was,
Pimperne wee the only branch which bad Melted them
at all this year, consequently the trustees had no
plase to fail beak upon, and when told they maid not
ban • neared at hosperne, the question warn where
the banners meeting should be held •nd they felt
that considering the last business meetleg wins at
Dorchester, it was only fair that this year it should
Mho plao, at Blandford. He could not help thinking
himaelf that the granehes seemed to be a little tired of
receiving the society—at any rate they did not Per to
arrange for a festival as they did in the early days of
the society, and it would be a question for coesiters-
lion in the future for the trustees whether the anneal
meeting should not heseeferth be foe busbies' only,
rather than connected wish a festival. Of course that
wou'sci not in the least interfere with any branch
holding Ito own festival. On the whole he thought
they had not much to complain of in the report.
Conaidering all the elteutustanoss of the year whist%
were referred to in the report he felt that the results
were matter of oongratulation rather than otherwise.
The fact that thry had ben enabled during the p.m
year to pay so Mtge an amount of sick pay as 112,354
odd and still lay by something not eery far from £5OO
seemed certainly • fact for oongrathlation. One remark
he would mike with respect to the sick pay. It was
eartainly rather tattoos that flout:* the amount of
sickness—the number of dare and weeks—had been
Ws by 36 weeks and 3 day. last year than in 1871. the
sick pay had been teenaged by £lB4 odd. Be scarcely
knew how to amount for it, except Perhaps It might
be the easeeltst nienthen had takes advantage of the
Increased oppoetanitise of subeeriblag on • higher
male, and that therefore the sick pel in individual
moms had been higher than heretofore. ?wham there
were some gentlemen present who would ask why steps
had not Mee taken titular the past year to cell together
the rtibeommittee appointed at the net I meet
lag for the purpose of considering miriade matters
couneeted with the society. The only 10141144 he had
to give was that during • considerable part of the year
he we. very poorly himself, and was glad to he enabled
to postpone any work which seemed likely to fall ou
him. At lent's, however, be did summon • sub-
committee meeting, but, as it happened, it was oast of
the worst of aLI the bad days of weather in Is7l, and
mesequantly he found himself unable to attend, and
rawly Mr. Pearce end me or two friends in the immediate
nel/4hbourhood of Dorchester were present; bet he
bored the society would not sustain any damage from
the fast of the maboommittee not having met: He
thought the rub -committee would be slide to masklier
the whole matter of the revisioa of the rein which wee
referred to in the report better when they meld eill in
the 'Daniel of the actuary who would have In the
4011110 of next year to value the moiety and give his
advice. He saw, that the Wiltshire County Bertiety
within the last two yews had had • imamate, mrefully
examining their rules, and they had adjusted them to
• oonsiderable extent. They had the moisten°. of an
eminent estuary; and it might be • queetioa for eon.
sideristion, se was ineetioDed in the report, whether it
would not be ea aseelleet Wag to bring the rule' and
tables of this geology late more sloes actecedthes
eseenially with the Wiltshire satiety; as the two
manties were Intimately onneeted, and labourers were
paining from am to the other very freeptently and with
mere (sanity than in former days. Be cordially
gemming his apologies so far as any lecher of his own
were gencierned to those members of the sub-ecrounittee
who kid been appointed but net summoned, and hoped
they intact kindly mender the points he had brought
forward. Another matter to whlah he bad wimps
healer sail attention before he eat dowa was with
respect to the National Deposit Society. Those who
reed gee orewspapers during the past year would hare
4040 that considerable stir had been made on the
subject, in the neighbourhood of the meaty town
especially--in the valley of the ?rooms north of Dor-
elkester. Considering that this wan an old -established
and thoroughly county society, lades( • certain num-
ber of its officers natives of the county, be thought the
geodesist' who advocated the Deposit Society esercely
paid them perhaps quite so much respect IN they might
have done-he did not want to Meld on the word, but they
mewed to have repadioted the idea of barter any con-
nection with this moiety, end end ed to form •
meaty Wench of the National Deposit Society entirely
ledm mama of We moiety. He did not know whether
any of the gestiamen present had well smoldered the
matter of a deposit oleos, but to hi. owe Bandit did pot
neseameed itself go strongly as it seemed to have done to
tithes who promoted it Hs otinfeened that he liked
the old priori* of mutual men:saes better than the
mew plan of • deposit. The Mimeses between the
two seamed be be that under the deposit setenie it was
every men for himself, while with mutual meatuses it
was every man not only for himseif hut fee his
neighbour too. Some pnthmetes had had emaidereble
earrespoodeem ea the subjeet, and the great sup-
porters of a deposit Mem seemed to think that system
much more suitable for labourers than mutual semi.
sets.; however, the fasts were mitudderably against that
It seemed to him twosome in Hempehire they bad bad
foe • considerable period a deposit elms in connection
with the County Frieudly Scanty, but ha found
(theinb he was speaking oat of book) that the number
of persona make forward year after year to join the
mutual MN IMAOS elms In that county was something
like ton to one cf them joining the deposit ahem In
Wiltshire it was the same—a very large proportion of
the new members still adhered to the old prieciple.
Ha foaled by the report of I.B7l—he had not Met year,.
=Wit of 536 new mernbenenrolled 478 were for 1;:y under the steadied tables, and only 43 for
the deposit *lam Se it seemed to Ida the idea fell to
the ground that the working °lama would welcome
the deposit system in preferments the old Plait BtUl,
It was a matter (as was suggested in the report) well
worthy of ociesidenties. The deposit "therm was .up-
pmtsJ some very high names, though perhaps not
as strongly am some of its peceseeers hawed. Two
or Wee gentimsen had dated that the Lard Chen-
who they woad all leek up to as a greet
asthma" In same matters, was manly In lamer of
their system, and be oarefully emaidered the speech
the Lard ChaucieUor made it the establihment of a
degait elms in his Immediate iseighltearbeed, sod to
which they pointed as their itheltortty foe his opinion
ad the oduatoo. Bat the lard Obaesteller did not
Lthimself at all bolt: he rase* rid be thought
illrery good system, but be did net 66 ell pledge
himself it was the beet, for he said it was • =blast
he had not gine much, stleation to; and all he
advessted wee the eetabliehmeett of Friss* Beatles
of seem form or other. Be had &Miami theca looter
than be beaded : be had i.e great pleerran in moving
ta the prow« of their Pneidate, who had Welk
wen • ossolderabio dilemma to attend, though there
woo no festival diaper te prides over—Mall the repeat
6,f815d, opted. sad skluistod as wen&
Tbe law. Tame BABB' allifilldffik Sad It WM
.aieled aim We.