Co-opting

At present, if more than two Exec, members retire, a third cannot be co-opted, but an election has to be held for that member, and for the two who have already been co-opted. M. I. T. Heath moved the second amendment to the constitution—to change this number to three, and so avoid the necessity for a series of by-elections. Mr. Melting appeared to think that two was a company, but three a crowd, since he opposed it, remarking that three co-opted members, who had not been chosen by members of the association, was too great a proportion of the committee. It was pointed out by Mr. Battersby that the present number (2) was arrived at in the days when the Exec, was smaller than it was now; He did not think, that three was therefore such a large proportion. The motion was carried.