ANNUAL IlEI'OKT. 



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9. Numbers of Members and Associates. 

 Tlie following statement shows the number of supporters 

 of the Institute at the end of December, 1913 : — 



Life Members 28 



Amiuai Members ... ... ... 103 



Life Associates ... ... ... 66 



Annual Associates ... ... ... 296 



Missionary Associates ... ... 20 



Hon. Corresponding Members ... 90 

 Library Associates ... ... ... 24 



Total 627 



showing a net decrease, after allowing for deaths and 

 retirements, of 5 on last year's return. 



10. Finance. 



The statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure attached hereto 

 compares not unfavourably on the whole with that of the 

 preceding year. The total expenditure in 1913 exceeded that 

 in 1912 by £1 lis. 7d., but certain items, amounting in the 

 whole to £16 16s., will not recur in the year on which we have 

 just entered. The unpaid bills also, carried forward to 1914, 

 are £31 17s. 9d. lower than those brought forward from 1912. 

 But on the other hand, the receipts in 1913 have only sufficed 

 to meet the expenditure through the donations received for the 

 Special Fund, viz., £52 16s. 3d. The prospect for the coming 

 year is satisfactory so far that the ordinary income may be 

 expected to meet the ordinary expenditure. 



11. Special Fund. 



The Special Fund, above alluded to, was inaugurated by the 

 Council at their Meeting on December 9th, 1913, in order to 

 secure funds to enable them to place the finances of the 

 Institute upon a more satisfactory basis, and to make provision 

 for larger audiences than can at present be suitably accom- 

 modated in its rooms. It will be noticed that in the current 

 Session arranoements have been made that six of the Meetinos 



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shall be held in the Hall of the Royal Society of Arts. A 

 prompt response was made to this Appeal, by several Members 

 and Associates, and the total amount received when the Annual 

 Account was made up on December 31st, 1913, was £52 16s. 3d, 



