Thursday, 8th November, 1934.

Sir GODFREY -BARING, Bt., in the chair.

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

South Metropolitan' Gas Co. - 20 5 0 Miss N. M. Phillips - - 20 0 0 Anonymous per • Anstruther Branch _ _ _ _ 20 0 0 Paid £17,703 Os. Sd. 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 :— £230 5s. 9rf. to pay the rewards for life-boat services : £186 2s. 9d. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 403-407) ; £17 9s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews ; £32 Os. lOd. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost then* lives in the life-boat service at Rye Harbour.

£13 10s. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Fowey and Moelfre.

Voted £1 12s 6d. to pay the rewards for the Grail shoreboat service, an account of which appears on page 418.

Voted a further compassionate grant of £5 to Henry Barrett, ex-coxswain of the Bude life-boat, in view of his serious illness and poor circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £14, in view of their straitened circumstances, to the widow and daughter of James Crask, who was second coxswain of the Grimsby life-boat for a number of years and retired on account of ill health.

Thursday, 13th December, 1934.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

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

The late Miss Emily Alcock, • donation from executors - 250 0 0 Miss Florence - - - 50 0 0 Royal Air Force at Hinaidi and Basrah - - - - 29 2 7 Paid £18,475 Os. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, ife-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life- boat stations.

Included in the above were :—• £337 Is. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £321 9s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 407-414) ; £1 5s. for the assembly of a crew ; £14 8s. Wd. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Eastbourne and Rye Harbour ; £17 10s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Whitby.

Voted £14 15s. to pay the rewards for the shoreboat services at Ackergill, Goole, Kyle, Lytham St. Anne's, Machri, New Brighton and Queenstown, accounts of which appear on pages 418-419.

Monday, 31st December, 1934.

Paid £13,476 5s. 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 :— £332 4s. 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, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Holyhead, Johnshaven, The Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven, Pad- stow, Port St. Mary, Ramsgate, Rhoscolyn, Runswick, 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 ; £3 15s. for the benefit of a pensioner of Fethard who is ill.

Thursday, 10th January, 1935.

Paid £12,006 9s. 2d. 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 :— £175 Os. 9d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £226 Is. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 414-416) ; £1 for the assembly of a crew ; £9 to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Eastbourne.

Decided that, in view of the straitened circumstances of the widow of Henry Barrett, late coxswain of the Bude life-boat, who died on the 24th December, 1934, the amount of the pension which would have been payable on the 1st January, 1935, namely £1412s. 6d., be paid to her.

Decided that, in view of the straitened circumstances of the widow of William Mowat, late second coxswain of the Long- hope life-boat, who died in October last, the amount of the pension which would have been payable on the 1st January, 1935, namely £10, be paid to her..