Eleventh Annual Report 



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^1*HE Art Gallery Committee have much pleasure in presenting their 

 V/" Eleventh Annual Report to the Town Council. The Gallery has 

 been open during the past year 239 days, as compared with 278 days 

 in 1892, and the number of visitors is shown in the following table: — 



Visitors to Autumn Exhibition 

 ,, Spring „ 



,, Summer ,, 



Total Visitors 



Total Days Open by Payment 

 )> i> Free 



Total Days Open 



Average on Paying Days ... 

 ,, Free Days 



These figures, the Committee venture to think, are quite satisfac- 

 tory, varying but little from those of 1892. The average attendance on 

 the free days is rather less, and on the paying days a little more than 

 last year, but the total number of visitors is more by fifteen thousand 

 than it was three years ago. The largest attendance on a free day was 

 802, and on a paying day 347, both days being in Whit-week. 



The amount to be asked from the Council is £6 more than last 

 year. The Gallery having been open for six weeks less accounts for a 

 diminution of the same amount in the turnstile receipts, while Commis- 

 sion on sale of Pictures is ^20 less. The Committee, however, think, 

 considering the long depression of trade, they have been fortunate in 

 disposing of pictures to the Catalogue value of ,£515 16s. The sale 

 of Catalogues steadily increases. 



