Friday, 21st August, 1936.

PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. 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 :— £21 13s. 6d. 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.

Thursday, 17th September, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Lord Mottistone reported to the committee that he had resigned the coxswainship of the Brooke life-boat.

Co-opted Lieut.-Col. R. C. Bingham, D.S.O., and Mr. H. S. H. Burdett-Coutts members of the committee of management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— Anonymous The Misses Clark .

The late Miss E. Miller donation from executors Mr. D. T. Davies .

Cunard White Star Line Mr. J. G. Hammond Anonymous William Thorngate Trustees Miss Louise Stroh.

Mr. G. D. Buchanan Paid £19,684 Is. lOd. 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 :— £437 Os. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £418 lls. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 165 to 175) £11 18s. for assemblies of crews, etc. ; £296 18s. lOd. 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. Andrew's, Troon, Whitby and Wells ; £73 13s. Gd. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Cardigan, Hythe, Kessingland, Moelfre, Newhaven, and Walmer.

Voted £5 on account of additional rewards to the crew of the Aldeburgh life-boat.

(An account of this launch appears on page 167.) Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Evan Daniel, who was for twenty-five years a life-boatman at Aberystwyth, and who is now partially disabled and in straitened circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to the widow of William D. Woods, late second fireman of the Dover steam life-boat for sixteen years, who is in straitened cir- cumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Thomas S. Sliney, who was for thirty-three years a life-boatman at Ballycotton, and who is now ill and in straitened circumstances.

Voted £47 14s. to pay the rewards for the Burtonport, Courtmacsherry, Donaghadee, Dunbar, East Haven, Hayling Island, Jay- wick, Jersey, Kingsdown, Llandudno, Lowes- toft, Lynmouth, Port Erin, Portland, Redcar, St. Ives, Selsey, Shoreham, Sunderland, Swona Island, and Ventnor shoreboat ser- vices, accounts of which appear on pages 177 to 180.

Thursday, 8th October, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the chair.

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

The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, G.C.V.O., C.B.E., LL.D. 3,669 2 9 (making a total of £9,669 2s. 9d., the total cost of the new motor life- boat and boathouse at Hythe).

The late Lady McCallum, donation from trustees to Paisley branch . . . 100 0 0 Buckie Town Council, towards the cost of providing and maintaining Buckie motor life-boat .... 25 0 0 Paid £28,229 8s. 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 :— £75 13s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £229 7s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches ; (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 175 to 177) £6 3s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £27 9s. 2d. 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.

Voted £3 15s. on account of additional rewards to the crew of the Dungeness life-boat.

Voted a further compassionate grant of £15 to Charles Laeock, ex-coxswain of the Caister life-boat, who after twenty-five years' service in the life-boat is in straitened circumstances.

Voted £3 to pay the rewards for the Flamborough, Hastings, and Pprtrush shore- boat services, accounts of which appear on page 180.