Wed 23 Oct 1912
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 April £711 19s. After wages, etc, balance £198 19s. Dividend of £1 declared.
Reserve Fund balance £1183 9s 2d.
[1912 October Gen^l Meeting] At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 23^rd October 1912 @ 4 o.clock pm
Chairman Philip Jas Evans.
It appears that the sum of £711..19..0 has been received from the 1^st day of April to the 1^st day of October 1912 and a balance brought forward of £221..2..6 from the last Half Year (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £933..1..6 of which a sum of £434..2..6 has been applied towards payment of wages disbursements, etc, and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer a sum of £498..19..0.
Ordered that a Dividend of £1..- on each share be declared payable on the 1^st day of November 1912 free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £298..19..0 to the next Half Years A/c.
The sum of £73..18..8 in the hands of the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit and 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 £1183..9,,2,
Copy of meeting notice pasted on page.
