nutes of a meeting of the Working Committee of the Shanghar Sailors' Home held xt the office of H.B.M. Consul-General on Thursday, 23rd June, 1893.
Present:—Mr. N. J. Bonne Consul-General, in the chai R. W. Scott Rogers, R.N., Senior Naval Officer; Mr. Julin Macgregor, Me. R. F. Thorburn, Dr. Macleod, Mr. James Scott, Mr. R. W. Hur:
The notice calling the meeting having been taken as read, the minutes of the preceding meeting were confirmed and signed.
The Chairman said that the first business of the meeting was to elect a Honorary Secretary, und he proposed that Mr. R. W. Hurst should act in that capacity; this was seconded -by Mr. Thorburn and carried Mr. James Scott's report on the working on the Heme for the year 1892 was then read by the Chairman, and an account current was placed before the Committee showing a loss on the year's working of $804.99. was only $4 277.28 as against $5,121.24 in 1891, the expenditure had risen by $181.65.
The Superintendent appeared befwe the Committee, and explained that this was due to the longer time the seamen had remained on his hands in consequence of the increasing ditticulty of finding them ships, so that many had remained after their' wages had been exhausted; also in the number of sail iting the port.
Home would be carried on, unless nan ported out that the Sailors'
ing were dene to conduct the Institu-economically; and suggested that a Sub-Committee shuld be appointed to see how this desirable object could be attained, consisting wf Mr. James Scott, Her Majesty' sul, and a memer of the mercantile ce Mr. Macgregor promised to ask Mr. Willian Graham to act as the other member of the Sub-Committee, and the Honorary Secretary was directed to write to him inviting him to serve.
The Chairman proposed that the meeting be now adjourned fora month tallow of the report of the sub-Commi'tee being received this was seconded by Mr. Macgregor and carried unanimously.
Mar. 19. To Return—Bonus Hongkong Fire
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