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THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF 



qJV (Corporation <f{rt (gallery (^ommiUee, 



^HE Art Gallery Committee have pleasure in presenting their 

 Thirteenth Annual Report to the Town Council. The 

 Gallery has been open 249 days, and the number of visitors 



for the last three years may be seen by reference to the following 



Table :— 



IS 



The absence of any special attraction and the long and severe 

 winter did much to make the number of visitors below that of last 

 year, both in gross and in average. The highest number admitted on 

 a paying day was 428 on Whit Monday ; and the highest on a Free 

 Day, 844 on Easter Wednesday. The Council will be interested to 

 know that during the first four years the Gallery was open, the visitors 

 numbered 105,139; during the second four years 124,465; and during 

 the third similar period, 209,091 ; the total visitors during the thirteen 

 years being 486,492. 



