Thursday, llth November, 1937.

Sir GODFRBY BARING, Bt., in the chair:— Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.

Mr. Gordon Armstrong . . 8,000 0 0 Cunard White Star, Ltd. . 85 0 0 Mrs. F. M. Eager . . . 50 0 0 Mr. William Lee . . . 50 0 0 Esperanto . . . . 25 0 0 Miss M. Lobb . . . 25 0 0 Paid £25,22116s. 4d. 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 :— £145 9s. to pay the rewards for life-boat services ; £416 7s. 9d. to pay the rewards for life-boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 432—136) ; £2 3s. 6d. 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; £15 2s. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Port St. Mary and Wells.

Voted £18 on account of. additional rewards to the crew of the Moelfre life-boat.

Voted £7 11s. to pay the rewards for shore- boat services at Barmouth, Beaumaris, Cullercoats, and Guernsey, accounts of which appear on pages 450.

Thursday, 9th December, 1937.

The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the chair :— Decided that the services of Engineer- Captain A. G. Bremner, O.B.E., R.N., Superintendent Engineer, be retained for a further period of a year after he attains the age of 61 on the 19th June, 1938.

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

Executors of the late Miss C. T.

Tamer .... 500 0 0 Mr. Joseph H. Jacobs . . 105 0 0 Paid £25,924 10s. 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 maintanence of life-boat stations.

Included in the above were :— £272 14s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £361 7s. lOd. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 436—142) ; £38 7s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc. ; £11 6s. 5d. additional rewards for services previously reported ; £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 ; £5 to a man for injury in the life-boat service at Port St. Mary.

Voted £37 10s. on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Aberdeen, Clogher Head, Clou hey, Peel, Port Erin, and Port St. Mary life-boats.

Voted £5 12s. to pay the rewards for the Aberdeen, Abersoch, Arklow, Carradale, Kilkee, Porthdinllaen, and Portknockie shore- boat services, accounts of which appear on pages 429 30 and 450.

Thursday, 30th December, 1937.

Paid £39,030 7s. 2d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, etc., and the maintenance of life-boat stations.Thursday, 13th January, 1938.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair :— Reported that Mr. S. J. Aubrey had been elected chairman of Lloyd's for the ensuing year, in succession to Lieut.-Colonel R. W.

Roylance, J.P., and thus had become an ex-officio member of the Committee of Man- agement.

Resolved that the Swedish Life-boat Society be informed that the Institution would welcome the holding of an Inter- national Life-boat Conference in Germany in 1940.

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

King George's Fund for Sailors 1,000 0 0 Anonymous .... 500 0 0 Trustees of the Sir Albert Levy Benevolent Fund . . 500 0 0 Anonymous .... 100 0 0 Paid £23,064 Is. 4d. 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 :— £338 10s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services ; £288 18s. 6 J. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 442-449) ; 7s. 6d. for the assembly of a crew ; £3 12s. for services previously reported ; £337 12s. 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, Runswick, Rye Harbour, St. Andrew's, Troon, Whitby, and Wells; £102 2s. 6d. to men for injury in the life- boat service at Blackpool, Buckie, Caister, Falmouth, Moelfre, Newburgh, Newhaven, and Port St. Mary.

Voted £12 Os. 6d. on account of additional rewards to the crew and helpers of the Dungeness No. 2 life-boat.

Voted a further compassionate grant of £22 10s. to Charles Lacock, ex-coxswain of the Caister life-boat, who served for twenty- five years in the life-boat, and is now in straitened circumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £10 to Mrs. Edward Smith, widow of the late coxswain of the Kessingland life-boat, who is in straitened circumstances.

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

Voted £3 11s. 6d. to pay the rewards for the Southwold shoreboat service, an account of which appears on page 451..