LIFE-SAVING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 7, 3 October 1918, Page 3

LIFE-SAVING

EOYAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING. The eighth annual meeting of the Koyal Society (Wellington Centre.) was held in the Y.M.U.A. rooms last night. Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P., presided. Tho Government is again to be nskod to increase the humane grant from £75 to £150. Tho election of officers resulted as follows:—Patron, His Excellency the Governor-General; vicc-patroft (Wellington Centre), Mr. T. lioiuiyne; president, Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P.; vicepresidents, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, M.P., Messrs. J. Bigg, A. H. Hindmarsh, Ml 1 ., Martm Cluinman, J. P. Firth, J. P. Luke, M.P.,"J. P. Maxwell, J. A. Tripo, G. A. Troup, H. Amos, W. H. Coy, J.P., R. M. Virtue and Dr. Platts-Mills; chairman of executive, Mr. G. S. Hill; vice-chairman of executive, Mr. C. T. Bell; secretarytreasurer, Mr. W. C. Collier; trustees, Messrs. G. S. Hill, W. C. Collier, and E. Perry; auditors, Messrs. A. A. Somen'ille and W. G. Morpeth; chief instructor (acting), Mr. H. E. H. Bird; examiners, Messrs. A. A. Somerville, W. C. Collier, E. Perry, and H. E. H. Bird; executive committee. Messrs. J. Gleavo, J. S. Oliver, Ralph Smith, H. C. Austin, J. Powick, C. A. Bullivant, It. Timmins, E. Emerson, Misses N. Edmnnson, J. Aiken; representative, Dominion Executive Council, Mr. J. Wyn Irwin; district representatives, Paekakariki, Mr. J. Sanderson; Carterton, Mr. F. E. Tyler; Palmereton .North, Mr. C. E. Bowen; Levin, Mr. D. W: Matheson; Nelson, Mr. G. M'Kay; Blenheim, Mr. J. G. Bacon.