Library, 



The usual presentations to the Library will be appended to 

 this report. 



Appeal for N'ew Members. 



Owing to the heavy charges for printing and postages and all 

 other outlays, the Council find it necessary to restrict, as far as 

 possible, their outlays, which tends to hamper their operations. 

 It is, therefore, very necessary that a constant effort should be 

 made to secure new members, so that the usefulness of the 

 Society may not be impaired but rather strengthened. A special 

 appeal for new members was made by the President in the 

 course of the year, which resulted in a considerable addition to 

 the membership ; but a constant leakage is going on, and further 

 sustained efforts must be made. If each member would make 

 it a point to secure another member in the course of the year, 

 the present trouble would be immediately removed. 



Accounts (Appendix A). 



Mr W. H. Massie, moving the adoption of the Accounts 

 said: — "Our Capital Funds now stand at ^2212 as compared 

 with ;^2034 last year. Our investments have appreciated by 

 something like ;^i4o. It has been suggested with regard to 

 these investments that we might probably be getting a larger 

 rate of interest, and we have decided to take expert advice on 

 that point. With regard to Revenue, you will notice that we 

 have a favourable balance of ;^i25. Our printing account is 

 considerably reduced. That is one of our heaviest items of 

 expenditure, and it will help us considerably when we get that 

 further reduced. Postages are also much increased. We find 

 that subscriptions are not quite so well paid as formerly, and 

 that is one thing that increases our postage account. If 

 members would send their subscriptions at the first application, 

 it would be a very considerable saving to us. I would like to 

 support Mr Galloway's appeal for an increase in our members. 

 That really makes more for our prosperity than anything else. 

 Now the appeal which the President sent out has been very 

 successful, but we think it might have been more so if we had 

 had more assistance from the members, and especially from the 

 Council. Our difficulty was in finding the proper hands to put 

 those appeals into, and the men who are on the spot living in 

 the district might be able to supply us with the information, but 



