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The accounts are shown over the page and are made up from 1st April, 1892, to 
31st December, 1893 ; the subscriptions credited for 1892 are included in the 
balance in hand; the accounts cover this long period in order that they may be 
annually made up to 31st December instead of the 31st March. 
In the Notes of R.A.I. “Proceedings,” No. 14, Yol. XIX., December, 1892, 
an article on the Games’ Fund was published, and in it was a list of grants from 
the fund for the previous 10 years ; four of these grants are in the accompanying- 
accounts. 
In the current year five grants have already been made towards yachts, sticke, 
lawn tennis, and beagle kennels, and it is satisfactory to note that the receipts 
already amount to £180 without any supplementary lists. 
The Committee would remind the Regiment that the Games’ Fund was raised 
and is maintained by officers 
i. To pay the expenses of the Inter-Regimental Matches, R.A. v. R.E. 
Rackets and Billiards. 
ii. To pay the expenses of officers wishing to represent the Regiment in 
those matches. 
iii. To assist by grants the R.A. officers at any station in any part of the 
world in any line of sport or recreation of such a permanent nature 
that the benefits of the grant will be felt by their successors. 
The Committee before making any grant satisfy themselves that it is likely to 
be of permanent benefit, that most of the officers in the station are subscribers to 
the fund, and that a record of the grant will be kept in the Mess or some other 
permanent account book; the Committee cannot agree to the offer, frequently 
made, that if a grant be sanctioned many officers will subscribe to the fund. 
From these remarks it may be seen that the fund is not intended to assist in 
providing recreation for N.-C.O’s. and men, and applications for grants with this 
object cannot be entertained by the Committee. 
The Inter-Regimental Racket and Billiard Matches were contested this year 
under the new system adopted, as the result of a vote taken last year throughout 
the subscribers to the fund. 
The R.E. won two out of three events in each competition, and so hold the 
Cups for a year. 
A combined meeting of the Committees of both R.A. and R.E. Games’ Funds 
was held at Chatham on the first day of the matches this year, and it was agreed 
to submit to the respective general meetings of the funds a proposition to establish 
annual Inter-Regimental Matches at Golf R.A. v. R.E. 
The General Meeting was asked and agreed 
i. To approve of the institution of such matches ; 
ii. To allow the Committee to appoint a Sub-Committee of golf experts to 
confer with an R.E. Committee as to the rules and conditions under 
which the matches shall be played. 
iii. To sanction a grant of £25 to be added to a similar sum granted by 
the R.E. fund to purchase a golf cup ; this cup to be held in the 
same way as the Racket and Billiard Cups are now held. 
The Committee now consists of :— 
Major-General J. Alleyne, C.B., President. 
Colonel G. J. Burgmann. 
Lieut.-Colonel P. L. Macgregor. 
Major W. F. L. Lindsay. 
Major A. J. Abdy, Hon. Sec. 
Number of subscribers in April, 1893 = 525. 
„ ,, ,, ,, June, 1894 = 615. 
