The chairman, in his address to members, reviewed the work of the Committee for the current half-year and dealt among other topics with the questions of the recent municipal elections, rentals. daylight saving, the.V.C., Sino-Japanese hostilities, and finance. In connection with finance, he referred to the continued generosity of British firms and individuals and to the satisfactory total of the donations to the Association and the recently—established Endowment Fund. The mark set at for the Endowment Fund, he said, was £6,000 and nearly £4,000 had already been received.
Mr. Arnhold also the report of the ondon Parliamentary Committee covering its activities from September, 1939, to Easter of this year.
In concluding his address, Mr. Arnhold said he could imagine no finer inspiration at this critical time than the words spoken by the King in his broadcast on Empire Day and repeated thë final paragraph of the broadcast address, which was re ceived with loud and prolonged applause.
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