Auditors'/Annual Reports
Auditors'/Annual Reports were originally financial and statistical reports relating to membership and Association benefits. The format changed little, except that over time it became more discursive, with increasing space devoted to reports of conferences, correspondence from members and details of districts and firms in dispute.
Statistical material in tabular form includes:
- Income and expenditure by district
- Amounts paid to General Fund by district with contributing members named
- Names of members joining (with age recorded), deceased or excluded
- Annual return of sick, accident and superannuation benefit paid by district (with names of beneficiaries, type of benefit and sum granted)
- Names of deceased members and wives listed by district, with age, details of physical complaint and sum granted
- Cumulative annual table from 1862 to the present of numbers ofmembers, various types of benefit (funeral, sickness, accident, travelling, trade privileges, superannuation) paid with global sums involved and cost of benefit per member. Also donations to other societies.
Over the years there were modifications in the presentation of the reports including:
- Financial statement of Travelling Fund with names of members benefiting and amounts received - from 1904
- Alphabetical list of new members giving age, class of membership, date of entry and district - from 1904
- Alphabetical list of names of excluded members and district - from 1904
- Accident claims settled, listing member's name, injury and amount of benefit - from 1911
- Roll of Honour listing names and branch of members killed in active service 1914-18 - in 1919
- Names of members deceased, excluded or resigned for 1925 and giving branches - for 1925
- Names of members, branch and call-up/ demobilisation date of members called up for military service - in 1939
Monthly Reports
Statistical material in tabular form includes:
- Monthly financial statement of cash received from districts - including district details of "state of trade", hours worked per day/week; wages per hour/day/week; number of new members
- Monthly expenditure by district on funeral, superannuation, sickness or accident benefit with names of beneficiaries and sums received
- Minutes of Executive Council meeting
- List of addresses of club houses with name and address of district presidents
- List of new members and ages by district
- List of excluded members by district
- List of names and addresses of district secretaries
- List of names of members receiving travelling relief during previous quarter, by district with amounts received in each of the three months
- Financial statements of district disputes listing names of beneficiaries and amounts received
- "Special Notices" (later entitled "List of Firms Closed Against Members") including names (and assumed names) of workers who blacklegged and where they were travelling, also names of firms blacked
Quarterly Report
Names of candidates passing final and intermediate exams of National Joint Council for the Plastering Industry - for 1939
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