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Changes in the Personnel of the Board.
Considerable changes have taken place in the Membership
of the Board daring the year under review. At the
election of Members in June, 1895, Messrs. Arthur Roger
Carter, Charles Fitz-Roy Doll, Robert William Dibdin,
Nolan Glave, Samuel Clewin Griffith, John Grafton Izard,
Alfred Marshall Jay, Alfred James Jackson, and Joseph
Walter Tacon, were elected in the place of Messrs. William
Elliott Brooks, Charles Bussell, Alfred Samuel Gubb, James
Haxell, Hugh Frederick Jackson, John Francis Staines,
Richard Stapley, Joseph Truslove, and Philip Vallentine.
Three vacancies have occurred during the year, two of
which were caused by the death of John Horseley Mayo,
Esq., and Dr. John Waters, the other by the resignation
of Gilbert Smith, Esq. Mr. Mayo had been some time a
Member of the Board, and at the time of his death was
Chairman of the Law and Parliamentary Committee.
Dr. Waters had not, owing to ill-health, been able to take
an active part in the proceedings of the Board since his
election. Mr. Gilbert Smith had been a Member of the
Board for over twenty-one years, and at the time of his
resignation was serving for the second time as Chairman
of the Finance Committee; on receiving the announcement
of his resignation, the Board unanimously passed a Resolution
expressing their regret, and recording their appreciation
of the services which he had rendered.
During the year the death of a former Member of the
Board was also reported—viz., that of William Henry
Hewitt, Esq. In the Report for the year ended 25th March,
1894, reference was made to the fact that Mr. Hewitt did
not seek re-election at the expiration of his term of office,
and special reference was then made to the fact that