Thu 28 Jul 1921
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage, etc, since 1 January £1198 19s 19d. After wages, etc, balance £383 7s 11d. Dividend of £1 declared.
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[1921] At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Thursday the 28^th day of July 1921 @ 3.45pm
Mr P J Evans Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £1198..19..9 had been received from the 1^st day of January 1921 to the 30^th day of June 1921 and a balance brought forward of £254..3..2 from the last Account (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £1453..2..11 of which sum £1069..15..0 had been applied towards 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 £383..7..11.
Ordered that a Dividend of £1..0..0 per share be declared payable on the 31^st day of August next less Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £243..7..11 to the next Half Years Account.
The sum of £7..5..6 in the hands of the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit & Office 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 £250 5% War Stock 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 he year next following or until another Committee be appointed:
Mr J R Morton Ball, Mr W R Bloxam, Mr W Davies, Mr P J Evans, Mr E P Little, Mr F A Little, Maj R J Caruthers-Little, Mr W J Margetson, Mr S S Marling, Mr Hy Hooper.
Copy of Meeting notice pasted on page.
