Wed 23 Apr 1919
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1918 £564 0s 11d. After wages, etc, balance £194 4s 5d. Dividend of 10s declared.
Reserve Fund balance £1351 2s 10d.
At a General Half-Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 23^rd day of April 1919 @ 4 o'clock pm
Philip Jas Evans Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £564..0..11 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1918 to the 31^st day of March 1919 and a balance brought forward of £213..0..6 from the last Half-Years A/c (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £777..1..5 of which sum £582..17..0 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 £194..4..5.
Ordered that a Dividend of £-10^s/-^d per share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next --free of Income Tax--- carrying forward a balance of £124..4..5 to the next Half-Years Account.
The sum of £7,,5,,6 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 4½% Convertible Preference Stock 1875 costing £589..9..6 and £250 5% War Stock 1929-1947 costing £234..6..10 stands to the credit of the Reserve Fund making a total of £1351..2..10.
It was Resolved that the following Gentlemen form the Committee for the year next following or until another Committee be appointed:- Mr A J Morton Ball, Major J R Morton Ball, Mr W R Bloxam, Mr W Davies, Mr P J Evans (Chairman), Mr E P Little, Mr F W Little, Capt R J Caruthers Little, Mr J Margetson, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr S S Marling
Copy of meeting notice pasted on page.
