ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 1886. 



The Tenth Annual General Meeting was held in the Society's 

 Room, at the Institute, Union Street, on Tuesday, March 23rd, 1886. 



The President — Mr. J. T. Harris — took the Chair, with a fair 

 attendance of the chief supporters of the Society. 



The Officers of the Society, and Committee for the current year, 

 were unanimously elected: the Reports of the Committee, Excursion 

 and Sectional Secretaries, and the Balance Sheet were read and adopted. 

 Some changes in the Rules, proposed by the Committee, were discussed 

 and finally adopted. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



In presenting their Tenth Annual Report, your Committee have 

 pleasure in stating that the change they recommended last year has been 

 satisfactorily carried out, and has given very considerable satisfaction to 

 the majority of members, but a misunderstanding regarding our rules 

 has caused some correspondence between us and the Committee of the 

 Institute, and we have decided to recommend 3'ou to seek accommodation 

 elsewhere. 



There has been a decided improvement in the amount of interest 

 shown by our members, though it is still far from encouraging, either to 

 those who have the arrangements to make, or to gentlemen who have 

 prepared Papers for the evening meetings. 



There have been Four General Meetings, with an average attend- 

 ance of fourteen; this is better than the past three years, but still we feel 

 uncertain whether we shall be justified in again inducing members or 

 others to prepare Papers for these so-called General Meetings unless a 

 larger number of our members show a desire to take advantage of them, 

 and a proposition to this effect will be put forward this evening for your 

 consideration. 



