Thursday, 9th November, 1933.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Co-opted Captain the Right Hon. Charles C. Craig, Mr. Norman Clark Neill, and Lieut.- Col. F. Rayner, D.S.O., T.D., as members of the Committee of Management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.

Mrs. A. Beckley - - - 500 0 0 " R.X." (Chicago) - - - 108 8 0 Mr. Norman Clark Neill - 52 10 0 Mr. F. Hurl butt - - - 50 0 0 Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society - - 50 0 0 Paid £13,825 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £110 to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £262 13s. 3d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches. (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 207-209) ; £5 10s. 6d. for assemblies of crews, etc. ; £37 Is. Sd. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Caister and Rye Harbour.

Voted £1 to pay the rewards for the Blackpool shoreboat service, an account of which appears on page 226.

Thursday, 14th December, 1933.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Resolved that Lieut.-Col. the Right Hon.

the Earl of Home, K.T., D.L., J.P., T.D., be appointed a Vice-President of the Institution.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.

Anonymous (Scotland) - - 500 0 0 Gas Light and Coke Company, Ltd. - - - - -21 00 Anonymous - - - 20 0 0 Paid £15,037 13s. 5d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £434 10s. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £238 15s. Od. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 209-214.) £1 12s. Od. for assemblies of crews, etc. ; £18 4s. 8d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who lost their lives in the life-boat service at Caister and Rye Harbour ; £23 lls. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Angle, Blackpool, Filey and Penlee.

Voted £11 5s. Od!. to pay the rewards for shoreboat services at Penarth and Poole, accounts of which appear on pages 213, 226.

Friday, 29th December, 1933.

Paid £12,780 13s. 5d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, etc., and the maintenance of the life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £311 5s. 2d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Aldeburgh, Caister, Eastbourne, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Holyhead, Johnshaven, The Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven.

Padstow, Port St. Mary, Ramsgate, Rhos- colyn, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, St.

David's, Troon, Wells and Whitby ; £73 2s. 6d. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven and Walmer.

Thursday, llth January, 1934.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported that H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., would preside at the Annual General Meeting to be held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th April, 1934.

Reported that Mr. Neville Dixey had been elected chairman of Lloyd's for the present year, and thus became an ex officio member of the Committee of Management.

Decided that Stonehaven and Whitby No. 1 life-boat stations be closed forthwith, and Holy Island No. 2 station on the 31st March, 1934.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.

King George's Fund for Sailors -1,000 0 0 Mr. Herbert Jones - 100 0 0 Donation from the Executors of the late Mrs. Hooker - 50 0 0 Southern Railway - - - 31 10 0 Commonwealth and Dominion Line - - - - -27 60 Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P. 26 5 0 White Star Line Steamers' Charity Fund - - 25 0 0 Anonymous - - - - 20 O 0 Paid £11,045 14s. Id. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £375 18s. 7d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £440 19s. Od. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 214-225.) £57 18s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews ; £30 9s. 4d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Caister and Rye Harbour ; A compassionate grant of £11 5s. Qd. to the widow of Thomas Rees, of Angle, who is old and in poor circumstances. Thomas Rees had been coxswain of the life-boat for fifteen years, and had he lived a few more days would have been entitled to another year's pension equal to the amount of the grant ; A compassionate grant of £5 to Edward Noonan Walsh, who was for forty-two years a member of the crew of the Ballycotton life-boat, and is now in ill health and straitened circumstances ; A compassionate grant of £5 to J. W.

Brignall, who was for forty years a member of the crew of the Dungeness life-boat, and is now in poor health and circumstances..