194 Royal Colonial Institute. 



Empire Club of Canada. 



23. Arrangements have been made with the Empire Club of Canada by which 

 residents of the Dominion may become Non-Resident Fellows of the Royal 

 Colonial Institute and Members of the Empire Club of Canada on being duly proposed 

 and seconded and on payment of fees, which will cover membership of both the 

 Institute and the Club. By this means the Institute will have prominent Centres 

 in Canada where information regarding its work and objects will always be available. 



Empire Lectures. 



24. The Illustrated Lectures movement, inaugurated by the Institute, has proved a 

 gratifying success, the lectures having been attended by audiences ranging from a 

 few hundred in small towns to many thousands in the big industrial centres. 

 Opportunity is invariably taken to associate them with this Institute and make 

 known its objects. It is generally acknowledged in the Press and elsewhere that these 

 Lectures provide an excellent means of popular education regarding the responsibilities 

 as well as the resources of the British Empire. Subscriptions were invited from the 

 Fellows and others in order efiectively to carry on the work during the past 

 year, and in response to the appeal a sum of £355 was received. This amount 

 has now been exhausted, but the results obtained have been so satisfactory and 

 encouraging that the Council have voted a sum towards continuing the Lectures 

 during the present year. It is hoped that additional funds may be forth- 

 coming to enable the movement to be placed upon a broader basis and carried 

 on with increased energy. The co-operation of the civic authorities in various parts 

 of the United Kingdom has been invited for the purpose of carrying out the necessary 

 local arrangements and stimulating the movement. Mr. W. Herbert Garrison, who 

 has done much to make the Lectures attractive, has been appointed 0£&cial Lecturer 

 to the Institute, and if sufficient support is forthcoming it is hoped in due course 

 to organise a stafi of lecturers. 



Empire Trade. 



25. For some time past the Coimcil has had under consideration the question of 

 identifying itself in a more active manner with the furtherance of Empire Trade and 

 Industrial interests, and a Representative Committee has been formed to carry out 

 the Institute's work in that direction. The work of the Committee includes the 

 arrangement of Industrial Conferences with a view to regulating and co-ordinating 

 Empire Trade conditions, and by means of lectures at the Institute itself, and before 

 the Chambers of Commerce and Trade Bodies throughout the country and in other 

 ways to make more widely known the opportunities that exist in the Overseas 

 Dominions for British Trade and capital, and, on the other hand, to place the 

 British merchant and manufacturer in touch with the sources that are available 

 within the Empire for the supply of raw materials and other products. The work 

 of the Committee has received the support and co-operation of the Governments 

 of the various Dominions and Oversea Possessions, who have undertaken to supply 

 to the Institute their Reports and other documents affecting Empire Trade and 

 Industry. 



The following subjects have already engaged the attention of the Committee, and 

 formal Resolutions thereon have been forwarded to the President of the Board of 

 Trade and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and otherwise dealt with : — 



