XVIU REPORT OF COUNCIL. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 

 30TH JUNE, 1910. 



1. Your Council desires to submit the following report upon 

 the work of the Association for the tw^elve months, ist July, 

 1909, to 30th June, 1910. 



2. His Majesty the King. — As foreshadowed in the last 

 Annual Report, your Council, shortly after taking ofhce, 

 approached His Majesty King George \'., then Prince of 

 Wales, with a view to his accepting the office of Honorary 

 President of this Association, in view of his anticipated visit to 

 South Africa. The greatly-deplored demise of His late Majesty 

 King Edward VH. prevented the hoped-for visit from being 

 carried into eifect, but the request of your Council had already 

 been acceded to, and His present Majesty accordingly remains 

 Honorary President of the Association. 



3. Membership. — At the close of the year under report there 

 were 693 members on the Association's books. They were 

 distributed as follows : — 



Transvaal 295 



Cape ;^ 236 



Orange Free State 53 



Natal 41 



Rhodesia 15 



Basutoland 10 



Mozambique 5 



Swaziland I 



German South West Africa i 



Resident abroad 21 



Residence unknown 15 



693 



Of these, 32 were Life Members. Eighty-eight members, who 

 were two years in arrear with their subscriptions, were retained 

 on the list in pursuance of a resolution of Council to allow 

 a year's grace to members who became liable to removal from 

 the register by reason of being more than one year in arrear. 



4. Centre of Administration. — Consequent upon the reso- 

 lutions passed at the Bloemfontein meeting a year ago, the 

 Johannesburg office has been closed and the administrative 

 work of the Association has been centred in a single office at 

 Cape Town since the commencement of the present calendar 

 year. Notwithstanding an increased expenditure for purposes 

 of publication, the economy effected by the administrative 

 change has been sufficient, together with the successful collec- 

 tion of arrear subscriptions, and in spite of prevailing commer- 

 cial depression, to place the Association in a better financial 

 position than hitherto. 



5. Resignation of Assistant General Secretary. — On 

 account of his transference to Pretoria, Mr. E. Hope Jones, 

 who has held the office of Assistant General Secretary in Cape 

 Town ever since the estabhshment of the Association, has been 



