134 ANNUAL MEETINGS 



This grant represented a substantial increase over 

 that originally proposed, for the General Officers of 

 the Association, judging (as events proved, rightly) 

 that a representative body could be gathered to- 

 gether larger than that for which the sum originally 

 proposed would have afforded sufficient provision, 

 took advantage of the occasion of Their Majesties' 

 Coronation, when members of the Commonwealth 

 Government were present in London, to discuss this 

 matter with them. The suggestions then made, 

 from the point of view of the Association, were 

 received in the most generous spirit by the repre- 

 sentatives of the Commonwealth. 



The General Committee accepted the invitation 

 for the year 1914. Preliminary organisation in 

 Australia was placed in the hands of a Federal Council 

 or central executive, with executive officers and 

 committees in each of the mainland States, and 

 Dr. A. C. D. Eivett, of Melbourne University, was 

 appointed organising secretary in Australia. For the 

 Australian meeting had a more elaborate programme, 

 in certain respects, than even the South African 

 meeting, on which it was modelled ; it was not con- 

 fined to a single centre, but official business was 

 carried out, as will be seen, at five widely separated 

 centres, the State capitals of Perth, Adelaide, 

 Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Besides its 

 contribution of 15,000 for overseas travelling, 

 the Commonwealth Government defrayed all the 

 organising secretary's expenses and those connected 

 with the work of the Federal Council. It also 

 contributed largely to certain of the official enter- 

 tainments during the meeting. The State Govern- 

 ments, besides undertaking the whole cost of visiting 



