The second annual general meeting of the British Women's Association was held in the Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday afternoon.
The Chairman, Mrs. Gull, gave a comprehensive account of the progress of the Association during the past year. No great advance in mumpers, she remarked, was to have been expected because of the unanimity with which British women joined up in the first instance. The total membership was now 1,172. New mem-kers joining during the year were; 190; 43 resigned on account of leaving Shanghai; four, still_in Shanghai, resigned because they found that the Association was of ro use to them; and one outport nmiember had resigned, why the speaker did not.know. Perhaps less on exchange on her annual dollars had had something to do with it. Of the total membership 936 only had, as yet, paid up last year's subscription, while Mrs. Dorothy Lee informed her that in cne section: between 25 and 30 members were in arrears with their sectional payments. Mrs. Lee pointed out that this state of affairs would be impossible in any menis club or association, and the practice in the Shanghai Club of posting such defaulters was alluded to. Mrs. Lee suggested a similar raethod in the B.W.A., and Mrs. Gull accordingly asked for a show of hands on the matter.
This was in favour of posting defaulters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.