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We beg to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of the fol- 

 lowing magazines : " Photography," " Photographic Scraps," 

 " The Magic Lantern Journal," " The Photographic News," 

 " Sharland's N.Z. Photographer," "The American Process 

 Review," " The Canadian Photographic Journal," " The 

 Australian Photographic Journal," " The Practical Photo- 

 grapher," " The Australasian Photographic Review," " The 

 Kodak News," and " The Photographers' Record." 



A tale has reached us about a certain junior camp from 

 the College which spent Xmas at Lome. During the gale of 

 January 8, the campers ignominiously deserted their tent in 

 the middle of the night, and each of them might have been 

 seen rushing about wildly in his pyjamas, with a bundle of 

 loose clothes under his arm, looking for shelter in a hollow 

 tree. 



The annual meeting of the College was held on January 

 27, when the report (appended) was read, and the officers and 

 retiring members were re-elected with the exception of Mr. 

 Coburn, who desired to be relieved, and whose place was 

 taken by Mr. F. J. Leary. 



Annual Report for 1896. 



N submitting to the governors and subscribers the report of 

 the college for the year just ended, the Council has to 

 present a record of experiences similar to that submitted 

 last year, owing to a continuance of the policy of retrench- 

 ment adopted by the Government. 



Instead of working under the system qff capitation as in 

 former years, your Council early in the year received inti- 

 mation from the Education Department, that a vote of £250 

 had been allotted in lieu of the payment upon attendances 

 and results, the regulations for the working of the classes 

 being on the whole similar to the old ones. From the 

 financial statement, it will be seen by comparison with the 

 expenditure of last year that extreme economy has been exer- 

 cised in every department, and withal a deficiency of ^"41 

 exists. At the outset it was seen that the vote of ^250 

 would be altogether inadequate, and as the result of an urgent 

 appeal, the Minister of Education promised, if possible, to 

 supplement the amount from savings he expected to make in 

 distributing the grant. But, further, when the earnings for 

 1895 are taken into account, it will be observed from the 



