Tenth Annual Report 



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THE Art Gallery Committee have very great pleasure in presenting 

 to the Town Council their Tenth Annual Report. The Gallery 

 hns been open 278 days, and the number of visitors is shown 

 in the following table : — 



These figures, the Committee think, are highly satisfactory. The 

 attendance last year was altogether abnormal, including, as it did, some 

 nineteen thousand visitors who came to see the addresses presented to 

 Her Majesty the Queen. Deducting these, the attendance shows an 

 increase of fourteen thousand on last year, and of twenty thousand on 

 1889-90. That the extra free day granted by the Council is appreciated 

 is proved by the fact that the average attendance on each of the 84 

 days is only about 40 less than it was on the 44 days of the previous 

 year ; and that out of the grand total of visitors, more than two-thirds 

 came on the free days. The highest attendance on a free day was 

 1 165 on September 22nd, and, on a paying day, 782 on June 6th. 



The amount to be asked for from the Council is £322, only ^9 

 more than last year, in spite of the additional free day, a result which 

 is very gratifying. The receipts at the turnstiles have been ^45 less 

 than last year, but ^34 of last year's receipts were abnormal from the 



