Thursday, 10th November, 1938.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:—• Mr. C. V. Thomas, C.A. . . 1,500 0 0 R.N.D. . . . 40 0 0 Accepted the tender of Messrs. William Moss & Sons, Ltd., amounting to £43,630, providing for the completion of the new buildings and fittings at Elstree Life-boat Dep&t within thirty-three weeks.

Resolved that the Lytham St. Anne's station be closed.

Produced a report on air-raid precautions proposed for Life-boat House and resolved that the Secretary and Chief Inspector be directed to consider the question of the sending away of important documents to some safe place in a future emergency.

Resolved that in the event of a future emergency instructions for the move of the office and essential equipment to the new depot at Elstree be given on the authority of the chairman or vice-chairman of the Emergency Committee.

Paid £28,636 Is. 7d. 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 :— £155 3s. 3d. to pay the rewards for life-boat services; £250 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 27-30); £5 16s. 6d. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £20 12s. 8d. 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; £19 11s. to men for injury in the life-boat service at Aldeburgh, Newbiggin, Rhyl and Southend.

Voted £30 on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Ballycotton, Holyhead and Stromness life-boats.

Voted £1 2s. to pay the reward for a shore- boat service at Whitstable, account of which appears on page 47.

Thursday, 8th December, 1938.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.

Resolved that the Flamborough No. 2 station be closed forthwith.

Resolved that the Dungeness No. 2 station be closed on the 31st March, 1939.

Decided that the services of Engineer- Captain A. G. Bremner, O.B.E., R.N., Super- intendent Engineer, be retained for a further period of one year after 1st January, 1940.

Reported that Vice-Admiral Sir Noel F.

Laurence, K.C.B., D.S.O., had accepted appointment as an ex-officio member of the committee of management upon being appointed Admiral Commanding Reserves in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Studholme Brownrigg.

Resolved that the warmest thanks of the Committee of Management be accorded to Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., for his distinguished and valuable services to the Institution, extending over thirty years, as district inspector, deputy chief inspector and chief inspector of life- boats, and that this committee express their deep regard for Commander Drury, both as an officer of the Institution and as a friend.

Decided that the motor life-boat at present at Lytham St. Anne's be replaced by a reserve motor life-boat, and that the possibility of retaining the station be further investigated.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:—• Mr. Herbert Kenchington, F.R.I.B.A. . . . 50 0 0 Anonymous . . . 50 0 0 Mr. William Gibson, deceased— donation from executors to Dundee branch . . . 50 0 0 Paid £20,394 18s. 2d. 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:— £576 18s. to pay the rewards for life-boat services; £502 12s. 3d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 30—iO); £14 10s. for the assemblies of crews, etc.; £25 15s. lOd. 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; £23 3s. to a woman helper for injury in the life-boat service at Lynmouth.

Voted £80 7s. 6d. on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Aldeburgh, Barmouth, Filey, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Selsey, Skegness and Southend-on-Sea life- boats.

Voted £29 18s. to pay the rewards for the Barmouth, Boulmer, Campbeltown, Lyn- mouth, Nairn, Walton-on-the-Naze, Whitby and Withernsea shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on pages 47 and 48.

Friday, 30th December, 1938.

Paid £28,977 4s. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways, etc., and the maintenance of life-boat stations.Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Resolved that the invitation of the German Life-boat Society to the Fifth International Life-boat Conference to be held in Bremen in 1940 be accepted, and that the Board of Trade be informed that the Institution hope that, as at former conferences, the Board of Trade will be represented.

Reported that Mr. Stanley J. Aubrey had been re-elected chairman of Lloyd's and so continued as an ex-officio member of the committee of management.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— King George's Fund for Sailors 1,000 0 0 Mr. A. J. Grave, deceased, donation from executors . 200 0 0 Cunard White Star Line, Ltd., collections on board the company's vessels . . 75 0 0 Paid £27,419 3s. 9rf. 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:— £312 17s. 6d. to pay the rewards for life- boat services; £240 12s. 7d. to pay the rewards for life- boat launches (Accounts of these services and launches appear on pages 40-47); £14 9s. for assemblies of crews, etc.

£13 5s. Irf. for services previously reported; £327 3s. Hd. 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 and Whitby.

£98 17s. 6d. to men for injury in theiife- boat service at Blackpool, Buckie, Caister, Falmouth, Lowestoft, Moelfre, Newbiggin, Newburgh, Newhaven, Port St. Mary and Teesmouth.

Voted £23 on account of additional rewards to the crews of the Gourdon and Torbay life-boats.

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

Voted a compassionate grant of £26 to John Kelly, a survivor of the Fethard Life- boat disaster of 1914, who is now in ill- health and poor circumstances.

Voted a special compassionate allowance of 15s. a week, together with 5s. a week for each of two children, to the widow of James Stonall, a member of the crew of the New Brighton life-boat, who died suddenly four days after an arduous life-boat service on 23rd November, 1938.

Voted £9 6s. to pay the rewards for the Arklow and Drummore shoreboat services, accounts of which appear on page 48..