Wed 23 Jul 1947
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Received 3416.0.4, Balance £30.4.3, Total £72.4.7. Wages £414.16.7, Balance £307.8.0. No dividend. £511.19.5 War Loan Stock value £526.1.0, £183.17.8 National Defence Stock. Reserve Fund £709.18.8.
Committee: W R Bloxam Chairman, Major R J Caruthers-Little, Col J R Morton Ball, G W Morton Ball, G A Evans, M Stewart.
General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 23^rd day of July 1947 @ 3, 30 o'clock pm WGS Bloxam Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £416 0s 4d has been received from the 1^st day of January 1947 to the 30^th June 1947 and a balance brought forward of £306 4s 3d making a total of £722 4s 7d of which £414 16s 7d has been applied towards payment of Wages, Disbursements etc and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of £307 8s 0d. Ordered that no Dividend for the Half Year ending June 1947 be paid.
£511 19s 5d 3 1/2% War Loan Stock valued at £526 1s 0d and £183 7s 8d 3% National Defence Stock 1954-58 stands to the credit of the Reserve Fund making a total of £709 18s 8d.
Resolved that the following Gentlemen form the Committee for the year next following or until another Committee is appointed.
M^r W R Bloxam, Chairman Major R J C Little, Col J R Morton Ball, M^r G W Morton Ball, M^r G A Evans, M^r M Stewart.