Thursday, 15th April, 1937.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

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

Lloyd's collection . . 1,510 3 0 The late Mr. John Milroy, dona tion from executors . 174 1 6 The Rt. Hon. Lord Glanely 57 14 5 Mrs. E. Duvison . . 50 0 0 Mrs. M. Bromley, in memory of the late Mr. G. R. Barker . 25 0 0 Paid £35,942 12s. 3d. 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 :— £381 8s. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £152 6s. 3d. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 330-335) ; £72 8s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £1 12s. 6d. for a service previously reported; £28 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 Caister and Rye Harbour ; £27 17s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Hartlepool and Sunderland.

Voted £36 10s. on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Aberdeen and Holyhead life-boats.

Decided that the special weekly allowance now being paid to James Bultitude, an ex- member of the crew of the Caister life-boat, who was injured at a launch in November, 1929, be continued until March, 1938.

Decided that the special weekly allowance now being paid to Henry Marchant, who has been incapacitated by illness since going out on -service in the Newhaven life- boat in November, 1929, be continued until March, 1938.

Voted a compassionate grant of £5 towards the funeral expenses of W. Williams, an ex- life-boatman at Moelfre.

Voted £2 2s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Selsey shoreboat service, an account of which appears on pages 334 and 344.

Thursday, 27th May, 1937.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.

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

Anonymous . . . . 50 0 0 Mrs. Yerburgh . . . 50 0 0 Major C. B. Lee-Warner, J.P. . 26 5 0 Paid £13,791 8s. 8d. 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 :— £76 9s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £126 2s. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 335-340) ; £5 4s. for the assembly of a crew, etc. ; £47 5s. 6d. for services previously reported ; £27 9s. 2d. 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 ; £14 Is. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Hartlepool and Sunderland.

Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to Matthew Connor, assistant motor mechanic at Wicklow, who had retired on account of age and ill health after twenty-five years' service.

Voted £9 9s. to pay the rewards for shore- boat services at Padstow, Quilty, Co. Clare, and Whitby, accounts of which appear on pages 344 and 345.

Thursday, 10th June, 1937.

Sir GODFREY BASING, Bt., in the chair.

Paid £20,242 13s. lid. 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 :— £49 6s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £75 Is. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 340-341) ; £16 lls. 6d. for a service previously reported ; £315 17s. 6d. 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, Troon, Whitby and Wells ; £40 12s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Broughty Ferry, Caister, Moelfre and Newhaven.

Voted £3 15s. on account of additional rewards to the crew of the Dungeness No. 2 motor life-boat.

(An account of this service appears on page 340.) Voted a compassionate grant of £5 to David Griffiths, ex-bowman of the Cardigan life- boat, who is now old and in poor circum- stances, to help him towards the repair of his fishing boat, which was damaged by storm in February, 1937.

Voted a further compassionate grant of £22 10s. to Charles Laeeck, ex-coxswain ofthe Caister life-boat, who, after twenty-five years' service in the life-boat, is in straitened circumstances.

Voted 11s. 6d. to pay the rewards for a shoreboat service at Dunbar, an account of which appears on page 345.

Thursday, 8th July, 1937.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Resolved that the services of the chief inspector of life-boats, Commander E. D.

Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., be extended for one year after he attains the age of sixty, on the 18th July, 1938.

Co-opted Lieut.-Commander the Rt. Hon.

Lord Teynham, R.N., a member of the committee of management.

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

Governors of the Skelton Bounty (to defray the cost of the engines and general machinery equipment of the new motor life-boat for Blackpool) . . 700 0 0 Miss J. G. Allison . . . 60 0 0 Paid £34,110 3s. Id. 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 :— £61 6s. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £106 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 341-344) ; £1 17s. for the assembly of a crew ; £2 10s. additional rewards for service previously reported ; £27 9s. 2rf. 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 ; £14 to men for injury in the life-boat service at Port St. Mary and Redcar.

Voted £4 10s. on account of additional rewards to the crew of the Swanage life-boat.

(An account of this service appears on page 342.) Voted £2 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for shoreboat services at Clovelly, Leith, New Brighton, and Ramsgate, accounts of which appear on page 345..