Wed 24 Apr 1912
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1911 £661 16s 7d. After wages, etc, balance £421 2s 6d. Dividend of £1 declared.
[1912 April Gen^l Meeting] At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 24^th day of April 1912 @ 4 o'clock pm
Mr P J Evans Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £661..16..7 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1911 to the 31^st day of March 1912 and a balance brought forward of £325..5..5 from the last Half Years A/c (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £987..2..0 of which sum £565..19..6 has been applied towards the payment of Wages, disbursements, etc, (including the sum of £150..- paid towards the deficit of Revenue of the Thames & Severn Canal Act 1895) and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of £421..2..6.
Ordered that a Dividend of £1..0..0 per share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £221..2..6 to the next Half Years A/c.
The sum of £59..16..5 in the hands of the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit & Offices C^o Ltd, and £500..- in Cape of Good Hope 3½% Inscribed Stock costing £520..1..0 and £500..- North British Railway Cos 4½% Convertible Preference 1875 costing £589..9..6 stands to the credit of the Reserve Fund making a total of £1169..6..11.
It was resolved the following Gentlemen form the Committee for the year next following or until another Committee be appointed viz:
Mr P H Evans Chairman, Sir W H Marling Bt, Mr W J Stanton, Mr W Davies, Mr E P Little, Mr S S Marling, Mr A J Morton Ball, Mr F A Little, Mr F S Whittingham, Mr J R Morton Ball, Mr H R Hooper, Mr J Margetson.
Copy of Meeting notice pasted in minutes.
