Mr. Charles Stacey Hall, F.C.I.S., for twenty-eight years Assistant Town Clerk to the Bournemouth Corporation, who died on 14th August, at the age of sixty-four, had been for thirty- three years associated with the Institu- tion's work in Bournemouth. In 1894 he became an honorary worker for the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and when that Fund was taken over by the Institution in 1911, he became the Honorary Secretary of the Bournemouth section of the Poole, Bournemouth, Wimborne and Christchurch Branch.

He retired from the Honorary Secretary- ship in 1927, and was presented with the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum. At different times previously he had been presented with the -Record of Thanks, the Gold Pendant, and a Silver Inkstand, as small marks of the Institution's gratitude for his long and devoted services..