The various reports and accounts were then presented and passed. In the course of these it was mention-td that the hearty thanks of the committee were extended to all who had by subscription or in other ways shown their interest in the work, especially to the Stewards of the Race Club for a donation of $2,000, to the New Engineering & Shipbuilding Works for overhauls and repairs to the steam launch Sunbeam, and to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca. and Messrs. Butterfield Swire for coal for the Sunbeam. The work at the Hanbury Institute had so increased that, without the generous and much appreciated help given by the Stewards of the Race Glub and the New Engineering Shipbuilding Works, the Institute would have been in sore straits. During the year 4,472 men had sleeping accommodation and 39,332 meals were served. The income during the year was $20,440.24, which was $5,835.69 less than that of the preceding year, while the charity list ($1,588.75) was the heaviest of any during the present managership. Of the 384 different men accommodated at the Institute 71 belonged to the British naval and military services, 164 to the British mercantile marine, 26 were British civilians and the rest were Italians, Americans, Brazilians, Danes, Dutch, Norwegians, Poles, Portuguese, Swedes and Serbs. The motor boat to replace the Sunbeam was to cost the Society only Tls. 7,500, but it was doubtful whether this would even cover the cost of construction and for this they had again to express their thanks to the New Engineering & Shipbuilding Works.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.