Thursday, 12th November, 1936.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, BT., in the chair.

Resolved that the hearty and respectful thanks of the committee of management be accorded to H.R.H. the Duke of York, K.G., for graciously consenting to assume the office of President of the Institution.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :—• The late Mr. H. B. G. Warren— £ s. d.

donation from executors for provision and equipment of a life-boat .... 5,000 0 0 The late Dr. William Briggs— donation from executors . 27 11 10 Paid £24,764 10s. 2 i. 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 slip- ways, and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £453 4s. Sd. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £450 12s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 222-229) ; £16 lls. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £21 19s. 4d. 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 the widow of William H. Mitchell, late coxswain of the Exmouth life-boat, in view of her very poor circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to the widow of John Main, a life-boatman at Dunbar and Skateraw, in view of her strait- ened circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to J. R. Brownlee, at one time bowman at Tynemouth, who is now old and in very poor circumstances.

Voted £17 13s. 6d. to pay the rewards for shoreboat services at Cadgwith, Caister, Campbeltown, Clovelly, Eastbourne, Filey, Flint, Penarth, Robin Hood's Bay and Tenby, accounts of which appear on pages 240 and 241, and additional rewards for a shoreboat service at Selsey in August, 1936, reported in the last issue of The Life-Boat.

Thursday, 10th December, 1936.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Resolved that Commander F. F. Tower, O.B.E., late R.N.V.R., and Commodore the Right Hon. the Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.D., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., be appointed vice- presidents of the Institution.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— The late Mr. Caleb Diplock— £ s. d.

donation from executors . 250 0 0 Anonymous ; . . ; 50 0 0 Dr. W. K. Dunscombe . . 50 0 0 Sowerby Bridge Ladies' Life- boat Guild . . . 26 5 0 Paid £20,442 19s. Id. 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 :— £346 16s. Sd. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £336 18s. Sd. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 229-239) ; £65 9s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £1 5s. 6d. additional rewards for services previously reported; £32 4s. 4d. on account of pensions already granted to the dependent relatives of men who had lost their lives in the life-boat service at Fethard, Padstow, and Rye Harbour.

Voted £34 16s. on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Exmouth, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Moelfre, New Brighton, and Whitehills life-boats.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to Tom Ward, who had been a member of the Aldeburgh life-boat crew for many years, and is now old and in poor circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to a daughter of William Wink, who was at one time a member of the life-boat crew at Harwich, and died in poor circumstances.

Voted £4 4s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Hastings and Whitstable shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pages 241 and 242.Thursday, 31st December, 1936.

Paid £18,063 10s. lid. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of life-bbats, life-boathouses and slipways, etc., and the maintenance of life-boat stations.

Included in the above was £10 8s. 6d. to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Wells.

Thursday, 14th January, 1937.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported that His Majesty the King had •been graciously pleased to grant his Patron- age to the Institution.

Reported that Lieut-Col. R. W. Roylance, J.P., had been elected chairman of Lloyd's for the ensuing year, in succession to Mr.

Neville Dixey, and thus had become an ex officio member of the committee of manage- ment.

Confirmed the appointment of Mr. F. J.

Terry as joint district organizing secretary for Greater London.

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

King George's Fund for Sailors 1,000 0 0 Anonymous .... 100 0 0 The Southern Railway . . 31 10 0 British Forces in Iraq . . 28 1 9 Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P. 26 5 0 Polish British Steamship Co., Ltd. 26 5 0 Port Line , , , , 26 5 0 Paid £17,022 19s. lOd. 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 :— £286 Is. 9d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £356 14s. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 234-239) ; £26 18s. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £2 3s. for services previously reported ; £321 7s. 4d. 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, Rhoscolyn, Runs- wick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrew's, Troon, Whitby, and Wells ; £45 10s. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Moelfre, Newhaven, and Walmer.

Voted £9 10s. on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Margate and Port Askaig life-boats.

Decided that, in the special circumstances, a weekly allowance of 10s. be paid to the widow of ex-Second Coxswain W. E. Haylett, of Caister. Coxswain Haylett, who had retired owing to illness due to exposure in the life-boat service, had been in receipt of an allowance from the Institution.

Voted a compassionate grant of £9 to Andrew Young, ex-coxswain of the Cloughey life-boat, who is in poor circumstances.

Voted £26 11s. to pay the rewards for the Folkestone, Hastings, Lytham, and Whitby shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on page 242..