WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Annual Meeting : 11th December, 1890. 



Abstract of Annual Report. 



The Trustees report that there has been no diminution in the popu- 

 larity of the Institute. Tlie expenditure has been kept within the income. 

 New books to the amount of £10 have been obtained. The Trustees record 

 their thanks for grants of £20 from the Borough Council and £-5 from tlie 

 Countj^ Council, and also to the Borough Council for £10 towards the ex- 

 pense of fitting up the Museum. The number of members is seventy-six, 

 being a slight increase on the last year. Ten ordinary meetings and one 

 special meeting were held, which were well attended. About a hundred 

 volumes have been added to the library. The Trustees record their thanks 

 for numerous donations of newspapers. A IMuseum has been established, 

 in which the exhibits returned from tlie South Seas Exhibition, and the 

 other collections of the societj', have been arranged by the Curators and 

 Mr. W. G. Johnston. The accounts sliow that, including a balance from 

 thein-cvious year of £12 13s. 7d., the total income was £126 5s. lid. ; and 

 £28 2«. 8d. is carried forward. The society also has £400 invested, and 

 moneys due to it in excess of its liabilities amounting to £24 9s. 8d. 



Election of Officers for 1891. — President — Mr. M. L. 

 Moss ; Vice-president — Captain G. W. Bignell ; Hon. Treasurer 

 — Eev. John Blackburne ; Council — Messrs. Joseph Churches, 

 T. 0. W. Croft, Eobert Cross, W. C. Fendal, W. L. Fowler, 

 W. G. Johnston, A. H. King, John Nicholson, Robert Ross, 

 M. Scanlan, J. N. Smythe, J. P. Will. 



