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VIEW OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS for Year 1938-1939.
RE 0 E I P T8.
INTEREST AND DIVIDENDS . . . . . . £4,644 8 7
INoonE TAX RRPAID for year to 5th April 1939 . . . 1,442 5 4
£6,086 13 11
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ARREARE received . . . 2,271 15 6
EDINEUIIGH Snow—
Receipts . . . . . £25,290 4 4
Payments . . . . 4,923 n 5
£13,282 010
PA Y M E MTS.
ESTABLISHMENT EXPENSES (seepage 375) . £4,306 0 4
FEE To AUDITOR for 1937-1938 . . . . 120 0 0
CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT . . . . 320 17 1
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT . . . . 24 1 0
EDUCATION . . . . . 107 10 3
RETIEING ALLOWANCE To CONSULTING ENGINEER . 150 O 0
SOCIETY'S ‘TEANSACTIONS’ 1,827 1 8
ORDINARY Printing, Stationery, Advertising, and
Miscellaneous Accounts . . . . 767 4 11
GRANTS ’1‘0 LOCAL SOCIETIES, &c. . . . 921 11 2
£8,544 6 5
Extraordinary Expenditure—
Special Grants (see page 375) .£1,562 2 0
Empire Exhibition Guarantee . 200 0 0
.—_.——— 1,762 2 O
——-— 10,306 8 f2
SURPLUS . . . . . 12 5
Extraordinary Income—
Life Subscriptions . . . . . . . 997 7 0
BALANCE or RECEIPTS . . . £3,972 19 6
F. J. CARRUTHERS, Hon. Secretary.
R. F. BREBNER, Chairman of Directors.
GEO. JAMES GREGOR, C.A., Auditor.
EDINBURGH, 3rd January 1940.
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PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS.
MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5TH APRIL 1939.
Colonel F. J. CARRUTHERS of Dormont, Lockerbie, in the Chair.
Presenl.~0rdinary Directors—Mr R. Scott Aiton; Mr J. W. Alexander; Mr
John D. Allan; Mr David Blair; Mr \Villiam Brown; Mr Ian M. Campbell;
Mr James Clark '; Mr John E. B. Cowper ; Mr Peter W. Crawford ; Lieut.-Colonel
Garden Beauchamp Duff, D.S.O.; Mr William I. Elliot; Mr J. E. Kerr; Mr
Finlay MacGillivray; Mr James M‘Laren; Mr William Meiklem; Mr A. W.
Montgomerie; Mr William Montgomery; Mr Robert Park; Captain Ian S.
Robertson; Sir Joshua Ross-Taylor; Mr T. Mercer Sharp; Major Robert W.
Sharpe; Mr G. Bertram Shields; Mr John P. Sleigh; Mr Francis W. Walker;
Mr T. G. Wilson; Mr James Wither. Extraordinary Directors—Mr William
Allison ; Major R. F. Brebner ; Mr Thomas Clark ; Mr J. M. Dunlop ; Mr George
Grant; Mr James R. Lumsden; Mr Matthew Mather; Mr George G. Mercer;
Mr Robert Miller; Mr Alexander Murdoch; Mr James Paton; Mr John W.
Prentice; Mr John Robertson; Lord Rowallan; Mr Thomas Templeton: Mr
James \Vyllie. Treasurer—The Earl of Home, K.T. Honorary Secretary—Colonel
F. J. Carruthers of Dormont. Chemist—Mr J. F. Tocher, D.Sc., LL.D., F.I.C.
Illness of Chairman.
The Secretary read a letter from Mr James Dnrno, Chairman of Directors,
expressing appreciation of the kind message and good Wishes communicated to
him from the Meeting of the Board on lst March. He went on to say that he
had now left the Nursmg Home, and was steadily improving. He greatly regretted
his inability to be present at that Meeting, but looked forward with hope to be
able to attend at an early date.
Colonel F. J. Carruthers of Dormont, who, in the absence of Mr Durno, had
been called to the Chair, expressed the hope of the members of the Board for Mr
Durno‘s Speedy recovery. '
Congratulations to Mr Alexander Murdoch.
The Chairman, on behalf of the Board, extended to Mr Murdoch their con-
gratulations on his appointment to the important office of Meat and Live Stock
Officer for the South of Scotland under the Food Emorgency Plans.
Edinburgh Show, 1939.
Shetland Sheep—It was decided to accept, for exhibition only, 8. en of Shetland
Sheep which Sir John W. Buchanan-Jardine, Bt., of Castlemilk, ockerbie, had
Offered to exhibit at the Show.
Scottish Command.—It was agreed to grant the Scottish Command 8. space
00 ft. by 60 ft... free of charge, for a Military Exhibit at the Show.
School Children—The Secretary Submitted correspondence which he had had
with the Education Officer for the City of Edinburgh with regard to the admission
of School Children to the Show on the Thursday and Friday. The proposed
arrangements were generally approved. the charge for admission on Thursday

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