Wed 19 Jun 1929
£193 9s 6d in credit of Thames & Severn Canal Special Account. £75 in favour of Thames & Severn Canal Special Account, completing Company’s contribution year ending March 1929. £250 to Gloucestershire County Council. Letter to Gloucestershire County Council informing them of result of appeal to Public Bodies and Traders towards upkeep of Thames & Severn Canal to 31 March 1930. £380 instead of £550. Decision of Sharpness Docks Co. not to contribute £150 main cause.
Mr Smith had paid wharfage charge at Dudbridge £5 3s 1d.
Tenancy of wharf house at Dudbridge transferred to Mr John Perks.
[1929 June] Committee Meeting held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 19^th day of June 1929 @ 3 o'clock pm
Present: J Margetson, Henry R Hooper, W R Bloxam, Stanley Marling. J R Morton Ball, R J C Little.
Thames & Severn Canal
It was reported that £193..9..6 was standing to the credit of the Thames & Severn Canal Special A/c.
It was Resolved to draw a Cheque for £75..- in favour of the Thames & Severn Canal Special Account (completing the Companys contribution in this direction for the year ending March 1929). It was Resolved that a Cheque be drawn on the A/c, for £250, in favour of the Gloucestershire County Council, balance of £550 the Company had promised to try and collect for the year ended 31^st March 1929.
Financial Assistance 1929/30 - Thames & Severn Canal
The Clerk was instructed to write the following letter to the Gloucestershire County Council:
[Letter to the Glos C C re T&S Canal 1929/30] We are now in a position to report the result of our appeal to the Public Bodies and Traders for the support towards the upkeep of the Thames & Severn Canal for the year ending March 31 1930. Unfortunately the amount we hope to collect is considerably less than last year, viz: £350 instead of £550. This drop is almost entirely accounted for they the decision of the Sharpness Dock C^o not to contribute for a further period the sum of £150 which has been forthcoming in the past.
Wharf at Wallbrdige
The Clerk reported that Mr Smith had paid the Wharfage charge of £5..5..1.
Stroud Gas C^o re pipe at Dudbridge
Mr Bloxam reported that the Stroud Gas C^o had agreed to the Companies terms & conditions.
Wharf-house at Dudbridge
The Committee agreed to the transfer of the tenancy of the Wharf-house at Dudbridge to M^r John Perks subject to a new Agreement to be prepared by the Company's Solicitors on the usual terms.
Annual Inspection of Canal
Mr Ball & M^r Hooper agreed to undertake the inspection from Framilode to Eastington & M^r Little & M^r Bloxam that of the upper part on such dates as they may select.
Next Meeting
It was Ordered that the next Meeting be held on the 25^th July 1929 @ 3 o'clock pm & the General Half Yearly Meeting @ 3.30 o'clock pm on the same day.
Tonnage
1^st Jany to 19^th June
1929: 279..17..1
1928: 372..5..8
1914: 530..13..8.
For the month of May
1929: 47..3..9
1928: 69..19..3
1914: 70..14..0.
Cash at the Bank
1929: 127..1..11
1928: 91..15..4
1914: 242..12..6
