30 Old Subscribers Lost. 42 New Subscribers Found.

IN sending to the Institution a cheque for £419, being the contribution from the Reading Branch for the Branch year which ended on 30th September, Mr.

Burton Eraser, the Honorary Secretary, writes :— " I am sorry we shall be about £16 down this year, but considering the times, I am very relieved we are not more down.

"I have lost £21 15s. 6d. through 30 subscribers giving up, and 10 reducing their subscriptions, but I have got 42 new subscribers totalling £22 6s. Qd. to set against it.

" Village collections will be only 50s.

less, and Boxes are about the same.

" We collected £10 less on Life-boat Day, but are again the highest Mag Day this year in Reading, except for Alexandra Day and Poppy Day." We publish this letter in order to call attention to the extraordinary success of the Branch, in what has been a very difficult year, in getting new sub- scribers..