202 Royal Colonial Institute. 



The increase in the first, viz. salaries, pensions and wages, is £557, chiefly owing 

 to extra clerical assistance and an increase of the household staff. The cost of the 

 Journal, after deducting £847 received for advertisements and sales, amounts to £865, 

 as compared with £553 for 1909. This, however, is not a fair comparison. The 

 Journal for 1911 is made up of twelve monthly numbers and has also been greatly 

 enlarged, whereas the Journal for 1909 consists of only eight monthly numbers. The 

 increase of rates and taxes, of £348, due to the enlarged building, speaks for itself. 

 Altogether, the increases amount to £1,770 over that of 1909. Under the head of 

 Receipts the amount from Fellows' subscriptions is £7,633 for the year 1911 against 

 £5,421 for 1909, leaving a balance of £2,212 in favour of this year. Included in the 

 £7,633 Fellows' subscriptions is the sum of £1,141 for compounding life subscriptions. 

 It has hitherto been the custom to treat the amount received under this head as 

 annual income. Up to 1906 this may have been justifiable, because the amount 

 derived from this source was used in aid of the repayment of the £55,000 which was 

 the cost of the site and the erection of the building in Northumberland Avenue. Now 

 that the debt has been paid ofi, the amount received from compounded subscriptions 

 will be placed to a reserve fund and invested, instead of being treated as annual 

 income. To make a beginning, the Council have set aside £250 this year, and it is 

 hoped that if our income continues to increase we may add considerably to this sum 

 before the end of the year, and that, in future, it may be possible to place the whole 

 of the money derived from this source to the credit of this fund. 



The Annual Report of the Council deals so fully with the work of the past year 

 that I will only call your attention to a few of the subjects mentioned in it. In Para- 

 graph 10, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught is nominated for re-election as 

 President. As His Royal Highness is now Governor-General of Canada the Council 

 decided to create a new appointment — that of Vice-Patron of the Institute — which 

 His Royal Highness has done us the honour to accept : the reason for this I will 

 explain to you later on. Little has yet been done to carry out the important pro- 

 posal to establish local centres mentioned in Paragraph 20, although it has been under 

 the consideration of the Council for some considerable time. This is due to the 

 impossibility of carrying out new work until our staff is increased. The present stafE 

 is barely sufiicient to carry out the ordinary routine work of the Institute, much less 

 to undertake the formation of Local Branches — an undertaking which will absorb 

 the whole of one man's time. 



The aflSliation of the Empire Club of Canada with the Royal Colonial Institute, 

 as described in Paragraph 23, which has been carried out during the past year, is a 

 work of the greatest importance, as, through it, we shall be able to greatly increase 

 the circulation of our Journal, free of cost to the Institute. 



Both the Empire Trade Committee and the Emigration Committee are con- 

 tinuing to do good and useful work, the former under the Chairmanship of Mr. 

 Ben H. Morgan, one of our Councillors, and the latter under one of our Vice-Presidents, 

 the Duke of Marlborough. It may be mentioned that these Committees mark a 

 new departure in our work — a work which may be gradually extended to other 

 important Imperial subjects. 



Among other new departures is the formation of an Australian section of the 

 Institute, the appointment of Honorary Corresponding Secretaries in the United 

 Kingdom, and the issue of a Year Book to every Fellow of the Institute. This 

 latter work has been compiled by the Secretary, and will be issued to the Fellows 

 in the course of a few days. 



