Wed 16 Jun 1915
No agreement with Messrs Smith & Sons re compensation for damage by loss of licence of Ship Inn. House let to Mr Lee of Nailsworth on lease at £22 per annum for 21 years, 24 June 1915. Terminable at end of 10 or 15 years. Engrossment of lease duly sealed and attested. Certain portions of premises retained for Company’s use. Mr Hopson’s estimate for decoration to house (late Ship Inn) £21 13s.
Lodgemore Swing Bridge repaired. Further timber required shortly to renew central beams.
George Tyler, tenant of Dudbridge Warf House gave notice to leave on 24 June. To pay Ladyday rent and that for present quarter out of proceeds of sale of his furniture. Mr Snape Jnr to relet premises, £12 per annum.
Messrs F S Whittingham and J Margetson undertook annual inspection of canal from Framilode to Eastington. Chairman and Mr F A Little to inspect upper portion, Eastington to Stroud.
Request for increase in wages from workmen on canal. Increase from 18s to 19s per week of Frederick White and John Clutterbuck. Others provided by Company with no rent or rates to pay, no change.
Sharpness New Docks Co to charge increase of ½d per ton only in traffic from tip at Sharpness to and through Stroud Canal instead of extra 1½d per ton, i.e. 2d per ton instead of 3d.
Tonnage 1 April to 15 June £283 13s 7d, 1914 £227 12s 5d, 1913 £295 11 9d.
[1915 June] Committee Meeting held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 16^th day of June 1915 @ 3 o'clock pm
Present: Philip Jas Evans, W^m Davies, Edward P Little, F S Whittingham, F A Little, W H Marling, Jack Margetson.
M^r Whittingham reported that he had not yet been able to come to an agreement with Messrs Smith & Sons Limited as to the amount of compensation they should pay for damage by loss of the License of the Ship Inn. Also that he had arranged with M^r W Lee of Nailsworth to let to him the house (late The Ship Inn) on lease at £22 per annum for 21 years from 24^th June 1915 determinable more or less at the end of 10 or 14 years and he produced the engrossment of the Lease which was duly sealed and attested. Certain portions of the premises had been reserved for the Company's use.
Estimate by M^r Hopson for the necessary decoration,, etc, to the house (late The Ship Inn) was put in amounting to £21..13..0 and agreed to.
M^r Snape Jun^r reported that the repairs ordered for the Lodgemore Swing Bridge had been carried out bu that further timber would be required shortly to renew the Central beams and he was authorised to order the same.
George Tyler tenant of Dudbridge Wharf House had given notice to leave on the 24^th June next, he had not as yet paid the Ladyday rent, but had promised to pay it and that for the present quarter out of the proceeds of sale of his furniture. M^r Snape was to take steps to relet the premises and ask £12 per annum. it being left to the Chairman and M^r Whittingham to deal with it.
Messrs F S Whittingham and J Margetson undertook to make the Annual Inspection of Canal from Framilode to Eastington and M^r F A Little and the Chairman would inspect the upper portion - Eastington to Stroud - on dates that suit their own convenience.
A request for increase of Wages had been received from the Workmen on the Canal. After discussion it was greed to increase the Wages from 18/- to 19/- per week of Frederick White and John Clutterbuck, but as the others had houses provided by the Company with no rent or rates to pay it was considered unnecessary to make any change except in these two Cases.
The Chairman reported that in conjunction with M^r Whittingham he had been able to arrange with the Sharpness New Docks Company for them to charge an increased ½^d per ton only on the traffic from the Tip at Sharpness to and through the Stroud Canal instead of the extra 1½^d per ton they had proposed to charge i.e. 2^d per ton instead of 3^d.
The Tonnage April 1^st to June 15^th amounted to £283..13..7 as compared with for the same period last year £227..12..5 and previous year £295..11..9.
The Balance at Bank stood at £193..3..9 comparing with June 1914 £205..14..3 and June 1913 £227..3..4.
