Thursday, 16th May, 1935.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Co-opted Captain Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, Bt., C.B., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., a member of the committee of management.

Received and decided to accept an invita- tion from the Swedish Life-boat Society to send representatives to the fourth inter- national life-boat conference to be held in Sweden in July, 1936.

Decided that the Bembridge and Yar- mouth (I.W.) motor life-boats should be present at the Naval Review at Spithead in July, 1935.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— Col. Sir Hildred Carlile, Bt., £ s. d.

C.B.E 105 0 0 Mr. A. F. Baker . . 50 0 0 H.M.S. Resolution . . 35 7 0 Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd., Manchester . . 31 10 0 H.M.S. Nemalia . . 27 0 0 Paid £23,992 18s. 7d. 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 :— £118 12s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £142 10s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pp. 506-510) ; £1 13s. 6rf. for the assemblies of crews ; £33 13s. 4d. 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 Har- bour ; £1 to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Torbay.

Voted £5 8s. to pay the rewards for shore- boat cases at Porthcawl and Eyemouth, accounts of which appear on page 516, and at St. Peter Port, an account of -which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.

Thursday, 20th June, 1935.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Co-opted Sir John Dashwood, Bt., Mr.

T. O. Gray and Major Kenneth Schweder members of the committee of management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :—• Bermuda and West Indies Steam- £ s. d.

ship Co., Ltd. . . . 25 14 5 Anonymous . . . 25 0 0 The late Miss Julia Keightley— donation in accordance with her wishes . . . 25 0 0 Paid £20,781 13s. 4,d. 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 slip-ways, and the maintenance of life- boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £165 lls. 6 Z. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £140 16s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pp. 510-513) ; £9 7s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews ; £316 14s. Sd. 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, Padstow, Port St. Mary, Ramsgate, Rhos- colyn, Runswick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, St. David's, Troon, Wells and Whitby ; £84 17s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Aldeburgh, Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Moelfre, Newhaven and Walmer.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of the late Coxswain William Millar, of Eyemouth, who is in straitened circum- stances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £15 to Charles Lacock, who has just retired from the position of coxswain of the Caister life- boat and is in very straitened circum- stances.

Voted £24 15s. to pay the rewards for the Sheringham, Craster and Skegness shore- boat services, accounts of which appear on pp. 516 and 517.

Thursday, llth July, 1935.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Decided that the Blackrock life-boat station be closed in September, 1935.

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

Miss Elizabeth Sinclair . . 7,500 0 0 Miss C. Woodhouse . . . 250 0 0 Independent Order of Odd- fellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society . . . 52 10 0 Court of Assistants of the Dra- pers' Company . . 50 0 0 Miss A. Hall . . . 30 0 0 Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. 25 0 0 Paid £24,669 18s. 9rf. 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 :—• £65 16s. 6d. to pay the re-waids for life-boat services ; £95 Os. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pp. 513-516) ; £16 7s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £38 9s. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Rye Harbour.

Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to Mrs. Ellen Stephens, an annuitant under the Padstow Life-boat Disaster Fund of 1900, who is in straitened circumstances.

Voted £8 3s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the shoreboat services at Falmouth and Amble, accounts of which appear on page 517..