196 Royal Colonial Institute. 



Appended to the Report are the recommendations of three Sub-Committees on the 

 subject of the Emigration of (a) Single Men and Families, (&) of Single Women, and(c) 

 of Children. Further attention is being devoted to the question of Child Emigration. 



Freemasonry. 



28. The Council have granted permission for the name of the Institute to be used 

 in connection with the formation of a Lodge of Freemasons, the Membership of which 

 will be confined to Fellows of the Institute. The Lodge has been founded under the 

 title of " The Royal Colonial Institute Lodge," and already has a Membership of 

 59 Fellows representing all parts of the Empire. His Royal Highness the Duke of 

 Connaught, the President of the Institute, has consented to become the First Master. 



Education Conference. 



29. The Institute was ofl&cially represented on the occasion of the Imperial 

 Education Conference of 1911 by Dr. G. R. Parkin, C.M.G., a Member of the Council. 

 Resolutions were passed which will, in the opinion of the Council, be of permanent 

 benefit to the Co-ordination of Education throughout the Empire. 



Australasian Section. 



30. The Council has sanctioned the formation of an Australasian Section, which 

 meets at the Institute on the first Thursday in each month, and which not only provides 

 a centre where visitors from that part of the Empire can meet their fellow-coimtry- 

 men, but enables those resident in the United Kingdom to keep in touch with matters 

 of interest in Australasia. At each Meeting questions relating to Australasia are 

 informally discussed. 



Festival of Empire. 



31. With a view to contributing towards the success of the Festival of Empire 

 the Council granted the use of the Council Room of the Listitute for the Meetings of 

 the Special Committees dealing with Canada, Australasia, and South Africa, and also 

 gave special prominence to all notices regarding the Festival in the columns of United 

 Empire as well as on the Notice Board in the Rooms of the Institute. A special 

 exhibit, consisting of rare and curious Books and Maps lent by the Institute, was on 

 view in the Australian Court. The Institute was represented on the Executive 

 Committee by Lieut. -General Sir J. Bevan Edwards, K.C.M.G., C.B., and by Sir 

 Godfrey Lagden, K.C.M.G. 



Honorary Corresponding Secretaries. 



32. The thanks of the Council are tendered to the Honorary Corresponding Secre- 

 taries for the assistance they have gratuitously rendered in spreading a better know- 

 ledge of the objects and scope of the Institute in their respective spheres of work. In 

 order to make the work of the Institute better known in all parts of the Empire the 

 number of Honorary Corresponding Secretaries has been considerably increased, with 

 the result that representation has been secured in the leading cities of the Overseas 

 Dominions and Colonies. A complete list of the Honorary Corresponding Secretaries 

 appears in each issue of the Journal. It is contemplated during the ensuing year 



