330 Royal Colonial Institute. 



The following gentlemen have been appointed to the Committee as additional 

 members : W. M. Botsford, Esq., The Hon. J. Ct. Jenkins, and Joseph Rippon, Esq. 



City Luncheons. 



18. In connection with the work of the Empire Trade and Industry Committee, 

 the mid-day luncheons in the City, when leading authorities from Overseas contribute 

 interesting addresses on trade and other subjects, have proved most successful. They 

 have been largely attended, and the subjects dealt with have proved of considerable 

 interest. The following is a list of guests and the subjects dealt with : — 



Jan. 16. — J. S. Dennis (Assistant to the President of the Canadian Pacific Railway) 



on " Laud Settlement within the Empire." 

 Feb. 13. — Colonel Hon. James Allen (Minister of Finance and Defence, New 



Zealand) on " New Zealand and its Mission in the Pacific." 

 Mar. 4. — Hon. John Scaddan (Premier of Western Australia) on " The State of 



Western Australia." 

 Mar. 13. — C. Sandbach Parker on " The Development of British Guiana." 

 April 2.— Hon. W. A. Watt (Premier of Victoria) on " The State of Victoria." 

 April 10. — Hon. A. H. Peake (Premier of South Australia) on " The State of 



South Australia," 

 April 17. — Hon. Sir Lomer Gouin (Premier of Quebec) on " The Province of 



Quebec." 

 June 9.— Sir B. Edmund Walker, C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L. (President of the Canadian 



Bank of Commerce), on " Canadian Affairs." 

 Dec. 18. — W. E. Scott (Deputy-Minister of Agriculture, British Columbia) on 



" British Columbia : its Resources and Opportunities." 

 Dec. 22. — Arthur M. Myers (Ex-Minister of Finance and Defence, New Zealand) 



on " New Zealand." 



Information Bureau. 



19. An Information Bureau has been organised as a department of the Institute 

 with two distinct purposes in view : namely, to deal with inquiries made personally 

 or by letter to the Institute, and to distribute information concerning the resources 

 and opportunities for trade and enterprise that exist in the Overseas Dominions of the 

 Empire. 



Reviewing shortly the first purpose of the Bureau, inquiries will be answered from 

 the information at the disposal of the Institute concerning : (a) The resources and 

 opportunities for trade, enterprise and employment in the Overseas Dominions of the 

 Empire. For this work there will be a distribution to applicants of official pamphlets 

 of the self-governing Dominions, and the publications of Crown Colony Governments, 

 Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade Overseas, and such official and semi-official 

 literature. (6) Empire transportation and inter-communication. For this work, 

 circulars, time-tables, and pamphlets will be available for distribution, (c) The facili- 

 ties and amenites of life in the Mother Country. This branch of the work is for the 

 convenience of Non-Resident Fellows and Associates of the Institute visiting the Mother 

 Country, and will include the giving of practical information (not advice) concerning 

 educational facilities, medical treatment, hotels and such like accomm6dation, amuse- 

 ments, places of interest to visit, &c. Another part of the work of the Bureau is of a 

 more active and enterprising character. As a result of preliminary steps taken some 



