Wed 18 Apr 1917
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1916 £553 5s 10d. After wages, etc, balance £292 8s. Dividend of 10s declared.
Reserve Fund balance £1351 2s 10d.
[1917 April] At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 18^th day of April 1917 @ 4 o'clock pm
Edward P Little Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £553..5..10 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1916 to the 31^st day of March 1917 and a balance brought forward of £275..16..6 from last Half Years A/c (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £829..2..4 of which sum £536..14..4 has been applied toward the payment of Wages, disbursements, etc (including a 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 £292..8..0.
Ordered that a Dividend of £-..10^s/- per share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £192..8..0 to the next Half Years A/c.
The sum of £49..15..7 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 C^o 4½% Convertible Preference 1875 costing £589..9..6 - and £105..5..3 5% War Stock 1929-1947 costing £96..16..9 and £100 5% War Stock 1929-1947 costing £95 stands to the credit of the Reserve Fund making a total of £1351..13..10.
It was resolved that the following Gentlemen form the Committee for the year next following or until another Committee be appointed, viz: Mr A J Morton Ball, Major J R Morton Ball, Mr W Davies, Mr P J Evans (Chairman), Mr E P Little, Mr F A Little, Cap^t R J Caruthers-Little, Mr J Margetson, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr S S Marling, Mr F S Whittingham.
