Success of Jubilee Fund Collection The annual meeting of the British Women's Association was held on Fri day, at the headquarters, 12 The Bund, with an unusually large attendance. Lady Brenan, unfortunately. was unable to be present. owing to illness.
'Mrs, W. F. Bichard, Acting Chairman, reporting on the year's activities, said' that the organization was now "well into its teens". The raise in subscription fees from $6 to $10 did of appear to have been unsuccessful {in its outcome. She expressed sratitude to the ofoers. members of the Association, the committee, and those outside the organization who had contributed. to its success. and espe-dally to Messrs. Lowe. Bingham Matthews, who audited the accounts, and the Stewards of the Race Club, for their generous donations.
Activities in connection with the [Jubilee Fund were embodied in the Following report:—"The B.W.A. were the originators of the King's Silver Jubilee Shilling Fund in Shanghat Which opened here on February 1 The BW.A. are affiliated with th-'Victoria League in London, and the Shilling Fund is being raised by the Joint Committee of Empire Societies of which the Victoria League is a member, to mark the occasion of the 25th Anniversiary of His Majesty's accession to the throne. The idea of Home and in the Colonies where the pound sterling fs used was to sk each British subject to give one shill ting towards the fund which was to be presented to His Majesty to dis-ose of as he wished. Here we took the dollar as the unit and suggested that each one should give $1. The fund reached the sum of nearly $5.000 and we were able to send home 7.780 would like to thank Mr. Howard for the cordial support he gave us -organizing the fund; we should never have had the same success had not helped us"
At the conclusion of the meeting.
was announced that the Executive Committee of the BW.A. for 1935-
1936 will include Mesdames Hf.
Boaler, A. M. Cannan, H. Ivan Clark, G.W. Cockburn, G." F. Dumbarton, J.T. Ford. P. D. G. Gain, E. F. Hardman, L. C. Healey. N. W. Hickling, W. Lyle, G. E. Marden, E. K. Quick, J.D. E Sholter, R. E. Toes. N. A. Vitoudaki, A. D. Wall, and J. S. Whitney.
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