Thursday, 8th February, 1934.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

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

Donation from the executors of the late Mr. Edward Clark - 100 0 0 Messrs. Wallace Bros. & Co., Ltd. 100 0 0 Miss Whittaker - - 50 0 0 Anonymous - - - 30 0 0 The Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. - - - - -21 00 Paid £13,318 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 the life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £212 9s. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £171 18s. 3d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 259—264.) 10s. additional reward in connexion with a case already reported ; £43 16s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £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 ; £6 to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Aldeburgh.

Voted £8 to pay the rewards for the Bridlington and North Sunderland shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on page 273.

Thursday, 8th March, 1934.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the death of the Most Hon. the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, P.C., K.T., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., a vice-president of the Institution, and resolved that a letter of sympathy be sent to Lady Aberdeen.

Reported that a society for the rescue of the shipwrecked had been established in Rumania, and resolved that the best wishes of the Institution be sent to the Society— —Societea de Salvare a Naufragiatilor in Apele Teritoriale Romanesti—for its success.

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

Mr. Charles Cooper, J.C. - - 100 0 0 Miss L. G. Weatherburn - - 100 0 0 Executors of the late Mr. William W. Webster - - 50 0 0 Mr. Alan C. Harris - - 35 0 0 Miss A. Hall - - - 30 0 0 Paid £16,747 Os. 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 :— £209 3s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £82 12s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 264-266.) £8 5s. for the assemblies of crews ; £325 13s. 3d. 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, Runswick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, St. David's, Troon, Wells and Whitby ; £59 12s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven and Walmer ; £113 13s. 6d. in connexion with the medical and surgical expenses, funeral expenses, grant for injury and widow's pension, relative to the death of Coxswain Robert Patton of Runswick. (For a full account of this service see page 253.) Voted a compassionate grant of £4 to the dependents of the late James Gorman, who had been for many years head launcher at the Clogher Head life-boat station. The grant was towards his funeral expenses, his dependents being in very straitened circumstances.

Voted £15 5s. to pay the rewards for the Arbroath shoreboat service, an account of which appears on page 273.

Thursday, 19th April, 1934.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Resolved that the thanks of the Institution be conveyed to Major-General Lord Mottistone for his services in broadcasting the Institution's wireless appeal on Sunday, llth March, 1934, as a result of which a sum of £2,423! has been received.

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

Lloyd's collection - 1,409 8 0 Donation from the executors of the late Mr. Barnet Lewis - 648 0 0 Mr. N. Burns, in memory of Mr.

J. Burns - 325 0 0 Miss Jane Co wen - - - 100 0 0 H.M.S. Resolution - - 30 5 0 Decided that the name of the Runswick motor life-boat be changed to Robert Patton —The Always Ready, in honour of Coxswain Patton, who died of injuries which he received in rescuing a lame man from the s.s. Disperser on the 8th February last.

Paid £25,326 13s. 3d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life- boat stations.

Included in the above were :— i Since this was reported to the committee further sums amounting to £20 have been received.

£333 12s. 5d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £201 13s. 9d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 266-272.) 13s. 6d. additional reward in connexion with a case already reported ; £18 10s. for the assemblies of crews ; £24 3s. 6d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Caister, Fethard and Rye Harbour ; £39 10s Qd. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Caister and Great Yarmouth and Gprleston.

Decided that the special weekly allowance now being paid to W. E. Haylett, ex-second coxswain of the Caister life-boat, who was compelled to retire owing to serious illness due to exposure in the life-boat service, be continued.

Voted a compassionate grant of £15 for the benefit of the widow of Coxswain John S.

Haylett of Caister, who was seriously ill.

Voted £3 10s. Qd. to pay the rewards for the Whitegate, Co. Cork, shoreboat service, an account of which appears on page 273..