. History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd., a fifty years' record, 1869-1919. CE FUND STARTED. A proposal which gave rise to a considerable amount ofdiscussion at the quarterly meeting, held in the beginning ofDecember 1890, was that of the committee to form an insurancefund of their own. At the meeting of the committee immediatelyprior to that quarterly meeting, the members of the boardagreed to recommend that £500 from the profits of that quarterbe taken to start an insurance fund, and that a special meetingbe held at the close of the quarterly meeting to consider thequestion o
. History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd., a fifty years' record, 1869-1919. CE FUND STARTED. A proposal which gave rise to a considerable amount ofdiscussion at the quarterly meeting, held in the beginning ofDecember 1890, was that of the committee to form an insurancefund of their own. At the meeting of the committee immediatelyprior to that quarterly meeting, the members of the boardagreed to recommend that £500 from the profits of that quarterbe taken to start an insurance fund, and that a special meetingbe held at the close of the quarterly meeting to consider thequestion of taking £1,000 from the reserve fund and placing itto the insurance fund. At the quarterly meeting the proposalwas hotly debated. Approval of the proposal of the committeeto allocate £500 to the insurance fund was moved, and was metby an amendment that the proposal be deleted from the amendment became the finding of the meeting, receiving104 votes against 87 votes for approval of the proposal. Thesubject cropped up again in the balance-sheet, where, in the PRESENT BOARD. I. ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, THOMAS MLEAN. 3. JOHN YOUNG, ?t. MATTHEW H. CADIZ. 5. JAMES HAMILTON PRESENT BOARD I. JOHN B, ROBERT MLAY. 3. JOHN F. JOHNSTONE. 4 JOHN SIMPSON. 5. JOHN B. WALKER. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS \IZ allocation of profit account, the £500 was shown as beingdevoted to an insurance fund, and a further crop of motionsand amendments was the result. It was moved that the £500be added to the reserve fund; that the balance-sheet, asprinted, be adopted ; and that the £500 be carried forward tonext quarter. The vote resulted in two favouring the transferof the £500 to the reserve fund, whUe 113 favoured the adoptionof the balance-sheet as printed, and 98 the carrying forwardof the sum. This vote was a clear reversal of the previous one,and showed that the delegates had no very clear conception ofthe business on which they were voting or else that some ofthem had c
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