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By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 

 (Read May 1th, 1915.) 



N addressing you at the end of my eleventh year 

 as your President, I do so under very special 

 circumstances, which have not occurred before, 

 and will not I hope do so again during our 

 lives, for the War which has affected everything 

 more or less has also cast a shadow over our 

 Field Club and made us feel that much of the 

 lighter part of our work could not be carried on 

 when everyone is deploring the loss of relatives and friends 

 amongst our brave soldiers and sailors. When we consider 

 this it seems comparatively a small thing to chronicle our 

 own losses as a Club, though some have gone from us whom 

 we could ill spare. We have lost one of our few remaining 



