Thursday, 22nd August, 1935.

PAID £21,918 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 the life-boat stations.

Included in the above was :— £20 10s. 4 J. 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.

Thursday, 12th September, 1935.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported that Vice-Admiral Henry Brown- rigg, C.B., D.S.O., had been appointed Admiral Commanding Reserves in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir George Chetwode, K.C.B., C.B.E., and became an ex-officio member of the committee of management.

Resolved that Piel (Barrow) life-boat station be renamed Barrow.

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

Lady Harrison . . . 5,000 0 0 Anonymous .... 500 0 0 The late Mrs. Fanny Abbott, donation from executors . 200 0 0 Trustees of the late Mr. William Thorngate . . . 80 0 0 Grant from collections made on board the Cunard White Star Company's vessels . 75 0 0 In memory of the late E. D.

Farmer . . . 50 0 0 The late Mrs. M. Taylor, dona- tion to Perth and district branch from executors . 50 0 0 Messrs. Cayzer, Irvine & Co., Ltd. 46 0 0 Buckie Town Council, towards the cost of providing and maintaining Buckie motor life-boat . . . . 25 0 0 Paid £17,163 16s. 6d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of Ufe-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, and the maintenance of life- boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £296 3s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £191 16s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pp. 556-563) ; £5 12s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £314 7s. 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, Fethard, Filey, Fraserburgh, Holyhead, Johnshaven, The Mumbles, New Brighton, Newhaven, Pad- stow, Port St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Runswick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrews, St. Davids, Troon, Wells and Whitby ; £76 17s. 6rf. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Holy Island, Moelfre, Newhaven and Walmer.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to George Grigson, an ex-coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, who is now in very straitened circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to W. E. Destores, who was at one time a mem- ber of the crew of the Youghal life-boat, and is now in very straitened circumstances.

Voted £40 2s. to pay the rewards for the Appledore, Blackpool, Caister, Hallsands, Herne Bay, Hoylake, Kerry Head, Padstow, Port Erin, Portrush, Scarborough, Skegness, Southend-on-Sea, Sunderland, Tenby, Wex- ford, and Whinnyfold shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pp. 572-575.

Thursday, 10th October, 1935.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported that Captain A. R. H. Morrell had been elected Deputy Master of Trinity House, in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, and became an ex-officio member of the committee of management.

Reported that Lord Sandhurst, O.B.E., who had been organizing secretary for Greater London since 1922, wished to resign his appointment as from the 1st November, 1935, and resolved that the thanks of the Institution be expressed to Lord Sandhurst for his services.

Resolved that Mrs. E. Leeming, assistant organizing secretary for Greater London, be appointed organizing secretary, and that a joint organizing secretary be appointed with her.

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

Prince Line, Ltd., grant from collections from passengers travelling between New York and South America . 50 0 0 H.M.S. Furious, grant from can- teen fund . . . 29 1 4 South Metropolitan Gas Co. . 21 0 0 Paid £26,872 19s. 2d. 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 :— £428 11s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £388 5s. to pay the rewards for life-?—* launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pp. 563—572) ; £6 18s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £46 12s. 6d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Padstow and Rye Harbour.

Voted a special compassionate grant of £15 to the family of the late Coxswain Angus McPhail, of Thurso, in view of the expense to which they were put during his last illness.

Voted £11 17s. lOd. to pay the rewards for the Margate, Poole, Scilly Islands and Swan- age shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pp. 555 and 575.

Voted £26 10s. in additional rewards to the life-boat crews at Barry Dock, Flam- borough, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, for the services reported on pp. 554, 571 & 566-567..