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Council's Report for 1917. 



IN presenting the Fourteenth Annual Report the Council is 

 enabled to record another year of continued activity and 

 usefulness. The number of Members on the 30th September was 

 394, against 406 on the same date last year. 



During the year General and other Meetings were held as 

 follows, viz., 



Annual Meeting 

 7 General Lectures 

 49 Sectional ditto and other Meetings 

 10 do. Excursions 

 making a total of 67 Meetings and Excursions. 



The General Lectures were as follows : — 

 1915- 



*Nov. 4. — " The Strange Story of the lovely Hervey Islands of the South 

 Pacific and their interesting Peoples," by Mr. Jas. E. Liddiard 

 F.R.G.S. 



*Nov. 18. — " The River Pydel and its Tributaries : Stately Homes of 

 Dorset," by Mr. Harry Pouncy. 



* Illustrated by Lantern Slides. 



During the remainder of the Session a special series of 

 Empire Lectures was given on The Resources of the Empire and 

 the splendid services rendered by the Overseas Dominions in con- 

 nection with the War, viz. : — 



Dec. 16. — " The Resources of our oldest and nearest Colony — Newfound- 

 land," by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., D.Sc, D.C.L. ; Chairman, 

 Sir Ralph Champneys Williams, K.C.M.G., late Governor of New 

 foundland. 

 1916. 



Jan. 13. — " New Zealand and the War," by the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Geo. 

 Ward, Bart., P.C., K.C.M.G., Minister of Finance, late Prime 

 Minister of New Zealand ; Chairman, Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., 

 D.Sc, D.C.L. 



Feb. 17. — " Australia and the War," by the Hon. John Greely Jenkins, 

 late Prime Minister of South Australia ; Chairman, Sir Geo. Ruthven 

 Le Hunte, G.C.M.G., late Governor of South Australia. 



Mar. 16. — " Canada and the War," by Lieut. -Colonel Richard Reid, 

 Agent-General for Ontario; Chairman, Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., 

 D.Sc, D.C.L. 



April 21. — " The Crown Colonies and the War," by Sir Everard im 

 Thurn, K.C.M.G., C.B., late Governor of Fiji and High Commis- 

 sioner of the Western Pacific, formerly Lieut. -Governor of Ceylon ; 

 Chairman, Alderman Hy. Robson, J. P., Mayor of Bournemouth. 



These Lectures were illustrated by Lantern Slides, and had 

 the sympathy and support of the Bournemouth Branch of the 

 Royal Colonial Institute and the Victoria League. They were 

 eminently successful in attaining the object in view. The nett 

 proceeds, £11 16s. 6d., were given to the Mayor's Local War 

 Fund. 



