Report of the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting. SIS 



regard to Mr. Garrison's lectures, Mr. Inglis said that lie himself, at auy rate, was glad 

 that Australia should sometimes be spoken of in terms of enthusiasm on public plat- 

 forms, for latterly one had noted a tendency in partisan quarters to misrepresent 

 Australia in every way, more particularly so far as regarded her enthusiasm 

 for the military trainiiig idea. No abuse was too great, and no misrepresentation 

 too absurd to use in criticising one of the finest pieces of Dominion legislation. 

 Then again there has been the usual complaint that the new order of Associates 

 was given too much attention. Somebody had worked out on a mathematical basis 

 that the returns for the annual subscription were out of all proportion to its amounts. 

 Iiideed, from some of the comments that had been made on the balance sheet, one 

 might imagine that one had strayed into the purlieus of the Cannon Street Hotel while 

 many company meetings were in progress. Of course it was essential that the balance 

 sheet should work out properly, but he would remind the meeting, as he reminded them 

 last yeai', that propaganda \\fOvk needed a great deal of expenditure in some years, the 

 full benefit of which might not be reaped until years afterwards. He further main- 

 tained that the Institute existed to do something in furtherance of its ideas for a 

 " United Empire," and its sole purpose was not in the providing of the facilities of a 

 West End club on a fifth of the club subscription. He congratulated the Institute on 

 a most successful year's work, and also congratulated the workers on the permanent 

 staff, to whom the Fellows could not be too grateful. His only hope was that the 

 Institute would in the future justify the hopes of its founders to even a greater extent 

 than in the past. 



Mr. A. Moor-Radford considered that the value of the building was much under- 

 estimated in the accounts. It would be quite impossible to put up such a building for 

 less than £15,000 more than was set down. In his opinion there never was a time when 

 the finances of the Institute were so good as they were at the present time. In a few 

 years' time the good seed that had been sown of late would develop itself in all directions. 

 He hoped himself that the units whether in Argentina or in Brazil, would all put them- 

 selves under the Institute. 



Mr. J. MuNFORD renewed the request he made at the last meeting for the formation 

 of a Committee dealing with education, and he also urged the Council to take up the 

 question of Empire Scholarships. 



Mr. J. Newman Thomas was glad to notice that an information bureau had been 

 organised as a department of the Institute, and he suggested the insertion in the 

 Magazine of some information with regard to forthcoming events for the guidance of 

 visitors to London. 



Mr. G. A. Gordon suggested that the names of the members of the various Com- 

 mittees should be published. 



Mr. D. Hope Johnston agreed that something should be done by way of increasing 

 the salaries of certain members of the staiT. He noticed the Council had given £250 

 towards obtaining an option of the Aldwych site, a proposal with which he agreed, but 

 he had some doubt regarding the donation towards the Halifax Memorial. As regards 

 the recruiting tours, he agreed with the purpose, but thought that three such tours in 

 one year came rather heavily on the funds of the Institute. As regarded some 

 remarks that had been made, in his opinion oue of the great purposes of the Institute 



