THE hundred and fourteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, llth May. Over 1,800 people were present.

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institution, was in the chair and the other speakers were: the Right Hon. Oliver Stanley, M.C., M.P., President of the Board of Trade ; Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution; the Hon. George Colville, deputy chairman ; Colonel the Lord Sempill and Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, C.B., M.P., members of the committee of management, and Mr. George Scantlebury, honorary secretary of the Plymouth branch.

The Duke of Kent was supported on the platform by vice-presidents of the Institution, members of the committee of management, members of the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and honorary life-governors of the Institution.

Among those who accepted the invitation of the Institution to support His Royal Highness on the platform were representatives of twelve foreign countries, the High Commissioner for Eire, five members of Parliament for constituencies from which life-boatmen had come to the meeting to receive awards for gallantry, the Mayors and .

Mayoresses of twenty-nine. cities and towns, and representatives of the Board of Trade, the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Bene- volent Society, King George's Fund for Sailors and the Civil Service Life-boat Fund.

The representatives of foreign countries were : Their Excellencies the Belgian and Japanese Ambassadors, the Ministers of the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Roumania and representatives of the embassies or ministries of France, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Greece and Latvia.

The five members of Parliament were : Mr. A. L. Beechman, M.P. for St. Ives; Major G. Lloyd George, M.P. for Pembroke; Sir J. D. W. Thomson, Bt., M.P. for Aberdeen; Captain G. M. Garro-Jones, M.P. for Aberdeen, and Miss Megan Lloyd George, M.P. for Anglesey.

The Mayors and Mayoresses of the twenty-nine cities and towns were : The Lord Provost of Aberdeen, the Mayors and Mayoresses of West- minster, Baling, Stoke Newington, Twickenham, Tottenham, East Ham, St. Marylebone, Hackney, Lambeth, Holborn, Southwark, West Ham, South- gate, Finchley, Kensington, Barnes, Bermondsey, Finsbury, Maiden and Coombe, Leyton, Beddington and Wallington,' St. Albans, St. Ives, Stratford-on-Avon, Swansea and Mar- gate, and the Mayors of Wembley and Poplar. The chairmen of the Urban District Councils of Crayford, Chisle- hurst and Sidcup, and Exmouth also accepted the invitation.

Parties of boys from the training ships Arethusa, Stork and Worcester were present.

The President's Address.

THE DUKE OF KENT'S address is on page 475.

Presentation of the Report for 1937.

SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., chairman of the Institution, presented the annual report and accounts for 1937, and they were adopted.

Election of Vice-Presidents and Committee of Management.

LiEur.-CoL. C. R. SATTERTHWAITE, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution, read the list of those nominated as vice-presidents, treasurer and other members of the committee of management, and auditors for the ensuing year. Those nominated were elected and the list appears in the annual report for 1937.

Presentation of Medals.

THE SECRETARY read the accounts of the services for which medals had been awarded, and the medals were presented by the Duke of Kent as follows :—• To COXSWAIN THOMAS COCKING, of St. Ives, the silver medal for the rescue of eighteen of the s.s. Alba, of Panama, on 31st January, 1938, when the life-boat was capsized by a heavy sea.

To MR. WILLIAM PETERS, second coxswain at St. Ives, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. MATTHEW BARBER, bowman at St. Ives, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. JOHN B. COCKING, assistant and acting motor mechanic at St. Ives, the bronze medal for the same service.To MB. JOHN THOMAS, boat-signalman at St. Ives, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. THOMAS COCKING, jun., a member of the St. Ives crew, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. HENRY PETERS, a member of the St. Ives crew, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. WILLIAM BARBER, a member of the St. Ives crew, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR PHILLIP PAYNTER, a member of the St. Ives crew, the bronze medal for the same service.

To COXSWAIN THOMAS M. SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, the silver second-service clasp for the rescue of two of the crew of eight of the steam trawler Roslin, of Aberdeen, on the 4th-5th November, 1937. Coxswain Sinclair won the silver medal for the rescue of the crew of seven of the steamer Fairy, of King's Lynn, on the 26th January, 1937, and the bronze medal for the service to the trawler George Stroud, of Aberdeen, on Christmas Day, 1935.

To MR. GEORGE A. FLETT, second coxswain at Aberdeen, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. ROBERT J. B. ESSON, assistant and acting motor mechanic at Aberdeen, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. THOMAS B. WALKER, bowman—now second assistant motor mechanic—at Aberdeen, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the same service.

(The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum was awarded to each of the four members of the crew who did not receive medals.) To ACTING-COXSWAIN JOHN REES, second coxswain at Tenby, the silver medal for the rescue of eight of the crew of the s.s. Fermanagh, of Belfast, on the 15th January, 1938, when in the absence of the coxswain, he took command of the life-boat.

To MR. ALFRED COTTAM, motor mechanic at Tenby, the bronze medal for the same service.

To MR. FRED HARRIES, acting bowman at Tenby, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the same service.

(The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum was awarded to each of the seven members of the crew who did not receive medals.) To COXSWAIN JOHN MATTHEWS, of Moelfre, the bronze medal for the rescue of the crew of five of the steamer Lady Windsor, of Cardiff, on 24th October, 1937.

To MR. ROBERT WILLIAMS, motor mechanic at Moelfre, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the same service.

To MR. WILLIAM BOND, assistant motor mechanic at Dunmore East, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for taking command of the life-boat on 15th January, 1938, in the absence of the coxswain and second coxswain, when she went in search of a steamer which could not be found.

To COXSWAIN THOMAS M. HORN, of Exmouth, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for taking out his life-boat under very difficult circumstances on 15th January, 1938.

The Right Hon. Oliver Stanley, M.C., MP.

THE RIGHT HON. OLIVER STANLEY, M.C., M.P., President of the Board of Trade : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I count it a very great privilege to be here this afternoon. I very often have to go to the annual general meetings of various kinds of bodies, but I very seldom go to an annual general meeting and pick up an annual report for the hundred and fourteenth year of the work of that association. That sort of age gives an atmosphere of permanence which excites both the admiration and the envy of a politician. (Laughter.) - The resolution which I have to move is on the same lines as resolutions which in other years have been put to a meeting such as this by my predecessors in office. The fact that they and I should have been asked at various times to move these resolutions is a testimony to the close community of interest between the Board of Trade and the Royal National Life-boat Institution. But it is to-day something more than a mere community of interest. For fifteen years now the Coast- guard Service has been under the control of the Board of Trade. For fifteen years the Coastguard Service has been wholly a life- saving service, and the result is that there must be, and there is, the very closest co- operation between the Coastguard Service and the Life-boat Service. It is the duty of the coastguards to watch ; it is the duty of the coastguards to receive messages and to pass them on; the Coastguard Service is, in fact, the eyes and the ears of the Life-boat Service. In the very moving account which we were given of the rescue at St. Ives I was glad to hear the very generous tribute which was paid by your secretary to the co-opera- tion of the Coastguard Service. (Applause.) The resolution which I have to move and which I shall ask you to pass falls, like Gaul, into three parts. I say it is divided, like Gaul, into three parts because it gives a sort of spurious air of classical knowledge which is simple, effective and not difficult. The first part asks you to recognize the gallantry of the coxswains and the crew. His Royal Highness in the course of his speech told you some of the services which they have per- formed during the past year. It does not need any words of mine to conjure up in your imagination the conditions under which those services were performed. We have had the accounts read by the secretary of only a small number of the incidents of the past year.

Those accounts have been couched in the most ordinary, undramatic language, and yet none of you who possess any imagination can have sat here to-day and listened to them without conjuring up to yourselves the vivid picture of what those dry words meant— the darkness, the rain, the mist, the seas, the cold—conditions frightening to us in our safe, warm security, under which those services were performed by those men.

(Applause.) His Royal Highness told you that duringthe year 524 lives have been saved by the Life-boat Service. I wonder how many lives were risked to save those 524—risked not in the heat of the moment, not by the spontaneous, involuntary, almost uncon- scious action which is taken in the moment of danger and which ranks as heroism, but risked in cold blood, risked by people who were deliberately leaving security for danger, who knew exactly the risks that they had to face. That is courage of the very rarest kind. (Applause.) I should like to add something to the resolution I have to move. In it we refer only to the gallantry of the coxswains and the crew, but gallantry by itself is not enough.

You have only got to listen to those accounts we have heard to realize that mere bravery without tenacity, without skill and without presence of mind, would have effected neither the rescues of those particular men and women nor the rescues of the other 500 which were performed during the year.

Now, as a preliminary to my speech, the secretary very kindly sent me some material for it, and in it I found a pamphlet issued by your Institution with the most interesting comparison between the life-boats of about a hundred years ago and the life-boats to-day —the enormous increase which has been made in their size, in their protection, in their stability, and the substitution, of course, of power for oar and for sail. But whatever differences, whatever improvements have been made in these hundred and four- teen years, they have not dispensed with, or altered in one degree, the need for that gallantry, for that ability, for that tenacity and for that presence of mind. (Applause.) Those improvements have not meant that what the life-boatmen had to do was less, was easier or safer. They simply mean that they have been able to bear more and to do more successfully. (Applause.) The second part of the resolution deals with work of a different character—with the work of the local committees, the honorary secretaries and the honorary treasurers.

The work they do is less romantic and it is less dangerous. It is less spectacular, but it is not the less necessary, because it is upon them that depends the efficiency of the station, and the services they render are just as much a vital part of this life-saving organization as were the services rendered by those behind the lines in the war, a vital part of the whole military organization.

Thirdly, in this resolution we give public recognition to the importance of the services which are rendered by the Royal National Life-boat Institution. That is indeed per- forming an essential work. Despite all the inventions of men which threaten rapidly to change every physical fact and every geographical notion which we have learned, we do still remain an island. We still depend for a great many of the necessaries of our life upon the sea and the ships that cross it.

Apart from fishing boats, last year more than half a million entrances and clearances from the ports of our country took place. Now, on the Department of which I am the head is laid the duty to prevent as far as possible these accidents upon the sea—to prevent them so far as they can be prevented by regulations dealing with the safety of ships.

We have, through the generations, made great progress. We are still making it.

Still much remains to be done ; but whatever progress we have made, whatever progress we can make in the future, there will always be times when, in the fight between man and the elements, man loses the battle, and it is a great thing for those on the sea to know that even when that happens they have still got one powerful ally left, and that ally is the Life-boat Service. (Applause.) Whatever their situation, whatever their dangers, they can still count on the services of that ally, and in the last year over 500 did not count in vain. (Applause.) I beg to move the resolution on the paper which stands in my name : That this Meeting, fully recognizing the important services of the Royal National Life-boat Institution in its national work of life-saving, desires to record its hearty appre- ciation of the gallantry of the coxswains and crews of the Institution's life-boats, and grate- fully to acknowledge the valuable help rendered to the cause by local committees, honorary secretaries and honorary treasurers.

(Applause.) Colonel The Lord Sempill.

COLONEL THE LORD SEMPILL : May it please Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Your Worships, my Lords, Ladies and Gentle- men, I am fully conscious of the high honour that falls to me of seconding this resolution moved in such splendid language by the President of the Board of Trade. The terms of the resolution must strike, as I am sure they did, deeply into our hearts, for there is in it so much more than is meant by the mere dictionary interpretation of the words in the form of the resolution—" hearty appreciation of the gallantry of the coxswains and crews ".

There is a deep, inner, spiritual meaning of the actions of these gallant men, who, risking all, under conditions when courage is at its lowest ebb, go out without thought to themselves to the service of others in dire peril. It would be natural that they would answer the call of their own flesh and blood, but in this last year—and such records are by no means exceptional—the service helped to safety twenty vessels belonging to eight foreign countries, saved a hundred and one lives, and brought four of those twenty vessels safely to port, saving them from complete destruction. (Applause.) Could the idealistic view of service to humanity reach any farther in these days, when there is a tendency for nations to look only to themselves ? It is indeed a splendid thing to see such an outstanding example in all senses of those great and centuries-old British traditions. (Applause.) The Institution has received thanks for the services to which I have briefly referred from five foreign countries. Our work is very much helped by the encouragement that we receive in these thanks from countries whose vessels it has been our privilege to assist; and we have with us to-day therepresentatives in this Hall, sitting behind His Royal Highness, of twelve different foreign countries. (Applause.) We also have the High Commissioner of Eire with us. (Applause.) His Royal Highness has told us that the Institution's fleet is shortly to be completely mechanized, and that the pulling and sailing boats will be relics of the past. This is a splendid programme to work to, but none the less an exceedingly difficult one, both from a financial point of view, as was so ably pointed out by His Royal Highness, and from a technical point of view. For twenty years the Institution has been experimenting with and developing boats' engines and the many important and most necessary auxiliary technical equipment required for the service.

The conditions that the service has to face are most varied and arduous. It is not merely a question of designing larger and more powerful boats, but rather the reverse, of designing smaller and lighter types, suitable for launching under all conditions, generally most disadvantageous ones. To-day the Institution is building eight different types of motor life-boat, from the 32-foot surf-boat with its two 10 horse-power engines weighing under five tons to the 51-foot Barnett Strom- ness type with its two 60 horse-power engines weighing over twenty-six tons. In the de- velopment of those boats the Institution owes a debt of gratitude to the technical help of the Royal Navy and the Royal Mercantile Marine. (Applause.) In addition, there are many other aspects of a technical nature which are extremely important. May I mention one—that of the wireless ? The time is not yet, but it is not far distant, when all our boats, when at sea, will be in touch with their appropriate shore stations by wireless telephony or telegraphy. But wireless developments have been exceedingly difficult, and bring in their train serious technical problems which are in the way of being solved. At the present moment our cabin boats are equipped with wireless telephony or telegraphy, but it has not yet been possible to develop an effective apparatus suitable for the open type of boat, many of which are in service. But that development is proceeding, and very shortly a suitable apparatus will be developed.

I should like to say again what an honour I count it to be allowed to speak in seconding this resolution, and what a great pleasure, too—particularly because His Royal Highness has selected for honourable mention Coxswain Sinclair and his crew of Aberdeen, my native city, and also coxswains and crews from the West Country, Wales, and Eire. In fact, all the Celtic lands within the confines of Britain have been specially selected for honourable mention. (Applause.) May I pay a very warm tribute indeed to those words of the President of the Board of Trade in expressing our appreciation of the splendid services rendered by the local committees, honorary secretaries and honorary treasurers. Your Royal Highness, I have the honour and privilege to second this resolution. (Applause.) The resolution was carried unanimously.

Presentations to Honorary Workers.

THE SECRETARY : Since the last annual meeting five honorary workers have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution. This is the highest honour which it can confer on an honorary worker, and the appointment is accompanied by a vellum signed by the President of the Institution. Three of the new honorary life-governors are present this afternoon to receive their vellums : LONDON, CLAPHAM : MRS. M. M. APPENNEA GREEN. BRISTOL : MRS. EDITH K. HARTLY HODDER. LEAMINGTON SPA : MRS. BEATRICE A. HOLDING.

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., presented the vellums.

THE SECRETARY : Since the last annual meeting thirteen gold badges, which are given only for distinguished honorary services, have been awarded. Nine of the recipients are present this afternoon to receive them : LONDON, HAMPSTEAD : MR. MYER S.

NATHAN, LL.D.

LONDON, PUTNEY : Miss A. D. CURRIE.

BALLYCOTTON : MRS. MARY L. BLAKE.

BELFAST : MRS. MARGARET E. L. CARSON.

BRISTOL : LADY DAVIES, R.R.C.

CHELTENHAM : Miss ELISABETH ff.

WANKLYN.

FORMBY : MRS. GRACE SIDNEY.

MOELFRE : COL. LAWRENCE WILLIAMS, O.B.E., D.L.

WOLVERHAMPTON : MRS. EDITH A. MANBY.

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., presented the badges.

Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, C.B., M.P.

REAR-ADMIRAL T. P. H. BEAMISH, C.B., M.P. : Your Royal Highness, Your Excel- lencies, Your Worships, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the great privilege of moving the resolution which I will now read to the meeting : That this meeting desires to record its sense of the deep obligation of the Institution to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and its many hundreds of voluntary members for the work which they have done in raising funds for the Life-boat Service.

The ladies and their helpers are indeed worthy of praise and, as a great voluntary institution, we have a very deep sense of our obligation to them for their work.

In moving this resolution, perhaps you will permit me to remind you that this year, 1938, is the centenary of that immortal action by Grace Darling, who, a hundred years ago next September, with her father went out to the rescue of the survivors of the s.s. Forfarshire, which had been wrecked with sixty-four men, women and children.

She and her father between them saved the survivors, nine in number. Every nation is very lucky to have, and proud of, its heroes and its heroines, and there is no nation that is prouder of a heroine than we are of Grace Darling. (Applause.) She has imperishable fame, and her courage and sacrifice are worthy of everlasting consideration by this Institution and by all our countrymen.

I should like to tell you that the Institution, with the help of a good deal of money which has been raised locally, has put up a building close to where Grace Darling was born, and close to the church in which she is buried at Bamburgh, in order that she may have a permanent memorial. In that building will be the boat in which she went to the rescue.

It will be opened this summer, and it will remain in charge of the Institution. We hope that in the future there may be sufficient funds to provide it with an annex which will be formed into a museum of Grace Darling relics.

You know how long this Institution has been going on. The first lady whose name appears in its reports is Her Majesty Queen Victoria, (Applause.) It is one year later, in 1838, that Grace Darling's name appears for the courage and devotion that I spoke of, and that name has been an inspiration ever since.

I want to remind you that this particular subject on which I am speaking now, namely, finance, is of supreme importance to the Institution, and it is true to say that if it were not for the efforts of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild, and its countless voluntary members, the Institution could not carry on its work.

We spent last year £27,000 more than our revenue, notwithstanding that the revenue was £14,000 above the previous year. That will give you some idea of the sums of money which we need in these days, and to show you what the women have done, there were 779 flag days, and £43,000 was raised by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and its helpers on those flag days. (Applause.) We have recently had the budget statement, and a political friend of mine remarked at a meeting which took place shortly after it was made that we all of us had now to face the handicap, and indeed the menace, of one Simon the Tanner. (Laughter.) You will remember that this Simon the Tanner—the original one, at any rate—lived by the sea, and was always very hospitable to sailors. I should like to remind you that this handicap and this menace is at once a challenge and an inspiration to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and the ladies who all over the country raise the necessary funds for this Institution, and I therefore have the greatest possible pleasure in moving the resolution that I read to you at the beginning. (Applause.) Mr. George Scantlebury.

MR. GEORGE SCANTLEBURY, HONORARY SECRETARY, PLYMOUTH BRANCH : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, someone has said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I happened to be present at a meeting recently of another great national philanthropic organization called for the purpose of dealing with the ever-increasing demand in connection with their finances, and by far the most impressive suggestion that was made at that meeting was by a lady who said : " Why not follow the lead of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and create an interest amongst the women of this district and throughout the country equal to the enthusiasm displayed by the ladies of the Life-boat Guild on behalf of that great Institution ? " She recognized the value of co-operative effort. I am a provincial branch secretary, and I can heartily appreciate her suggestion.

I have heard it said that secretaries do not work themselves. (Laughter.) They are ever on the prowl for someone else to do the job.

(Laughter.) Some people call them organizers.

I have heard branch secretaries called by some other names. (Laughter.) But never- theless, a good secretary should be a good organizer. (Applause.) A good organizer will inspire interest and enthusiasm and consequent co-operation ; and let me say at once that it is on that co-operation that every branch secretary relies.

Perhaps I am particularly fortunate in Plymouth in that I have the very close co- operation of the Admiralty, helpful in every particular. I have the co-operation of the churches and of the schools and of the press and of headquarters ; and last, but not least, of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. It is to them here and now that I would pay a tribute of gratitude for the enthusiasm with which they have worked for our Plymouth branch, ley nd and so materially strengthened our local ambitions. I have had experience otherwise, because, ten years ago, our Guild was extinct.

Then, one day, a lady came along—I think she must have been one of those ministering angels we hear about—and in the course of conversation, she said : "I really think I ought to ally myself to some great philan- thropic work. Of course, I do odds and ends for various enterprises, but they are so scrappy." It was my opportunity. I said : " I quite agree with you." (Laughter.) " I want a secretary of a Plymouth Ladies' Life-boat Guild who shall have the full responsibility of forming a strong working committee "; and she did. She laid the foundation of a strong, healthy Guild.

Their slogan to-day is : "A self-supporting branch " ; and they are nearing their ideal.

I am sorry if I have been rather parochial in my remarks, but what is true of our local branch is true of Ladies' Life-boat Guilds everywhere. I would appeal to ladies every- where, with time and influence at their disposal, to attach themselves to some great philanthropic organization. There is much in these organizations that is essentially women's work. Unselfishness and happiness are very closely allied, and I am quite sure that the great majority of us feel that life is not complete if we fold our arms and narrow ourselves down to a little sphere that will not reach outside ourselves. That would be far too dull and far too monotonous.

What we want is something stirring, some- thing exciting, something daring, some- thing exhilarating; and here it is—the call to strengthen the hands of those who have committed themselves to this great life- saving work. The SOS opportunity comes to every one of the ladies of this country to-day through the Ladies' Life-boatGuild, and through every member of our gallant life-boat crews—the call on behalf of those who go down to the sea in ships.

(Applause.) In grateful acknowledgment, Sir, of the splendid work of our Ladies' Life-boat Guild, I have very great pleasure in seconding the resolution so ably proposed by Admiral Beamish. (Applause.) The resolution was carried unanimously.

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of the Institution: It is my great honour and privilege to be allowed to move : That the hearty and respectful thanks of this meeting be given to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, K.G., for presiding over this, the hundred and fourteenth annual general meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

I am sure I am expressing the opinion of every governor present to-day when I say we are deeply grateful to His Royal Highness for sparing an hour from his very busy life to come here as our President and preside at this annual meeting. (Applause.) We all of us note with respectful admiration that hardly a day goes by without His Royal Highness eloquently speaking for some great national charity or some good work. His Royal Highness's activities are indeed mani- fold. They entail the attendance at a great many public dinners. I am only expressing my own opinion, but I always think that continual attendance at public dinners puts a most severe strain on the temper and on the patience, and even on the digestion, of those who are fortunate enough to be asked to those dinners, and I cannot help thinking that it must be a pleasing reflection to His Royal Highness to feel that his Presidency of this Institution does not necessitate his consuming even the smallest of sandwiches or a single glass of, shall we say, Empire wine. (Laughter.) His Royal Highness is always ready to help the Institution in every possible way.

I hope it will be possible for him to render us one more service, and that is that if he goes to the Glasgow Exhibition, as I am quite sure he will go, he will see our most attractive Pavilion, where we are showing a very fine life-boat and a great many things in connec- tion with our work. I hope it may be possible for many of the governors here present to go and see that Pavilion. May I say that entrance to it will be absolutely free, and may I say that I hope it will cost you a good deal before you get out ? (Laughter and applause.) It would be inexcusable for me to keep you longer. I beg to move this resolution, and I am quite sure it will be received, as it always is received, with the utmost enthusiasm and real gratitude. (Applause.) THE HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, Deputy Chairman of the Institution : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel very much honoured in having to second this resolution.

The resolution was carried by acclamation.

The proceedings then terminated.

In the evening the life-boatmen saw the musical comedy " Going Greek" at the Gaiety Theatre.