WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Annual Meeting : December, 1896. 



Abstract of Annual Report. 



Considerable patience and perseverance iiad been required to main- 

 tain the Institute in anything like its former efficiency. Many dis- 

 appointments and embarrassments had been met with during the year 

 owing to the removal of subscribers. There had been a diminishing 

 attendance. They had held nine committee meetings, mostly well 

 attended. The trustees desired to convey their thanks to the Borough 

 Council for their annual subsidy, likewise to those proprietors who donated 

 papers to the reading-room. The members' roll now numbered fifty- 

 seven, being rather small in proportion to the population. The library 

 would shortly have a welcome addition of a case of new books, which had 

 arrived and would soon be ready for circulation. 



The balance-sheet showed — Receipts, £102 8s. 6d. ; expenditure, 

 £117 15s. 6d. ; debit balance, £15 7s. 



Election of Officers for 1897. — President — Mr. A. H. 

 King; Vice-j^resiclent — Mr. D. Macfarlane; Hon. Treasurer — 

 Mr. T. H. Gill ; Trustees — Messrs. Chesney, Clarke, Beare, 

 Dawes, Fowler, Gibson, Heinz, Lawry, Mahan, Michel, 

 Sinclair, and Eev. S. Hamilton. 



