APTEND1X TU THE KEPOKT OK THE COUNCIL CXXV11 



Friday and Tuesday Sections C, E, F, L, might hold joint 

 meetings : — 



(a) Either with class (a) Sections in the rooms of bhose 

 Sections. 



(b) Or with the class (b) Sections occupying Section 

 rooms (for nothing in this scheme is to be construed as 

 prohibiting a class (b) Section from holding a joint meeting 

 with any other Section on one of its own two days). 



(c) Or with each other in a room — the ' Common Boom ' 

 — set apart for the purpose. It would probably be necessary 

 to devote a room exclusively to this, although the room 

 used under existing arrangements by the General and other 

 committees in the afternoons might also be made available 

 for occupation by Sections in the mornings. 



The above arrangement of the Sections in class (b) allots indi- 

 vidual rooms on the same two days to Sections which commonly hold 

 joint meetings (e.g., to Sections and E), so that such Sections would 

 be able to use a common room for joint meetings on other days. 

 An alternative arrangement is to allot different days for the individual 

 meetings of kindred Sections, e.g., on Thursday and Monday, E on 

 Friday and Tuesday. Any joint meeting between these Sections would 

 then have to take place during the time when one or other of them 

 was in individual occupation of a Section-room, and would thus reduce 

 the time available for individual work. This arrangement would tend to 

 reduce the demand upon a common room. 



The present organisation of the Sections in class (a) would be left 

 untouched, but their organising committees would be invited to give 

 particular consideration to the arrangement of joint meetings with Sec- 

 tions in class (b). 



4. It was assumed in drafting this scheme that all the Sections in 

 class (b) would meet regularly in the afternoons (e.g., from 2.0 to 3.30) 

 as well as the mornings of the days on which they occupied rooms 

 individually. 



Further, the last Wednesday morning is available for sectional 

 business, and five or six at least out of these eight Sections could be 

 accommodated on that morning, even if meeting separately. 



5. The practice of certain Sections which habitually adjourn their 

 Section-room meetings for the purpose of carrying out field or other 

 practical work, or visiting works, schools, &c, would afford valuable 

 opportunities, in the case of Sections in class (b), for the use of time 

 unoccupied by either individual or joint meetings. 



6. The scheme makes use of eight or at most nine Section-rooms 

 instead of twelve as at present (excluding the General Committee room). 



7. Arrangements for occupation of the ' Common Eoom ' would 

 have to be made in advance through the office of the Association. 



8. Every Section would have a permanent Committee-room for 

 the meeting. 



