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efforts. Lord Grey, for instance, did work in Canada that we value very highly. If 

 he could come out to New Zealand or Australia I cannot help thinking that the greatest 

 good would result. So I invite him most heartily to come and see us or, if not him, 

 some other official representative of the Institute. I wish the Institute most com- 

 plete success. Some day probably we shall realise more than we do even to-day the 

 value of those who preceded us. For instance the work of Sir Frederick Young and 

 others has been of inestimable value. May their work go on and may those who 

 come afterwards be also earnest students of Empire questions. We shall look to 

 this Institute more than to any other organisation for the final solution of the great 

 problem before us. 



The Chairman : I should like to ask every Fellow to back up the earnest and 

 patriotic appeal to which we have just Hstened. I will now ask you to give a hearing 

 to Sir Frederick Young. He is 96 years old next June ; he has been working for us 

 ever since the Institute was born, and he has the satisfaction of feeling in his older 

 days that many of the problems for which he has worked are nearing solution. 



Sir Frederick Young, K.C.M.G. : I confess I was anxious to say one or two 

 words about the Eeport, a report which I feel supremely delighted we have been able 

 to put before you. For all the years that the Institute has existed we have never 

 had a report which has struck me as being so full of the record of happy, successful 

 efforts as the present one. Of course there is no doubt that I personally had a good 

 deal to do with the development of the Institute, and that for many years I took a 

 very active and energetic part in aiding its development. I cannot help remembering 

 that in the early days of the Institute we had some difficult questions to solve with 

 regard to it. I remember the late Duke of Manchester, on one occasion, said that 

 he was afraid we were going to be a dilettante society. " No, your Grace," I replied ; 

 " the Institute is going to be a big thing because it is an agent for doing national good," 

 and that is one of the reasons that stimulated me for years to do what I could on my 

 part to make the Institute a success. I feel that we are in the most happy circumstances 

 at present. We could not have a more admirable President than our friend Lord 

 Grey, who since his return from Canada has thrown himself into this business in a 

 most wonderful way. Allusion has been made to our Secretary, Mr. Boose. To-day 

 he completes forty years' service with the Institute. I was present when he, quite 

 a young fellow, entered our service. This is a very interesting anniversary, and I 

 would repeat that in the case of Mr. Boose we have a most excellent and admirable 

 secretary. I felt I could not go away without saying these few words of congratulation 

 and high approval of the work of the Institute. 



Captain Charles Slack regarded the Eeport as the most favourable in the history 

 of the Institute. At the end of the year they would know better how the Institute 

 was going to be affected by the admission of the new class of Associates. With regard 

 to the Journal, he had always thought that it was one of the most important 

 factors connected with the Institute. It should, he thought, be doubled in size, with 

 plenty of illustrations and maps, and he urged that the Institute should hammer at 

 the Postmaster-General so as to get the cheap postal rates to Canada extended to the 

 rest of the Empire. 



Colonel H. E. Rawson, C.B., agreed that the Eeport was a magnificent record 

 of useful activities. He spoke in approval of the institution of the Empire lectures, 

 which kept us in touch with our kith and kin beyond the seas, and he was quite sure 

 that they also would be glad to see how much their work was appreciated. He noted 

 with gratification the reference in the Eeport to the subject of emigration, and in 



