FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. The first- annual meeting A the Royal Humatio Society of New Zealand was held in the City Council Chambers yesterday, ♦he Pre-idc-it. Mr R. C. Bishop, in I t h e diair. and the following were present: »y- J.am Hali, Lieutenant-Colonel Slater, y'i)'. Messrs J. A. Frostick, W. Rollitt, A. Ayers, C. J. Russell, G. Ci'-k'-'-' J f *' insjll » C. Hood Williams, Heva. 1- • '■• Clunibt is, Canon Kiiowles, and \V .<. lli-.ui. and his Worship the Mayor of Ckrisu-hntvh. Mr W. Recce., jj r H. 15. Kirk, of Timaru, telegraphed bis it'gvt at being unable to attend, and ex tending his hearty congratulations to the Society. The first annual report gave an epitome of tb« formation of the Society aud its progress since- it» establishment. During the nrst year the directors had made 24 awards. It 4a» recommended that 5000 additional copies of roller sheets of instruction should be is uu.d, so that every school, boating clu_b, f(ri_iniing ■ ■I'ib and kindred associations be lupph*-'-' • v ' til '''fin. It was also suggested that caution posts be erected at tpU known to be dangerous to btithei--. aiK.l stated that the question of life buoys inn-;-Sinn bt; taken into consideration. \ The Diu-.-toi-i desired to thank the police * el the colony for the very valuable aid they 1 hiive rt'iiilffi (I in reporting cases. The Direc tors recorded the ge;-•realty of Mr G. G. gtead in i h-itid, value £100, for a gold medal, to be awarded for special acts of bravery, and also their thanks to the Go vernment f<M* the yearly subsfdv of £100. The >t;it. na-iit of accounts showed receipts £268 12s 6.1. expenditure £170 5h Bd. credit balance £91) 6s 10d: the balance of assets or.r liabilities was £93 10s 4d. In moving the adoption of the report and totlatii-e sheet, the President pointed out that the whole of tin.- subscriptions, £68 8s 6d, ■ had been entirely from Christchurch and ■luburb-i. und not. cue penny had been received from other puts of the colony. He thought that, coiisi'leriii- tho nature of the work un dertaken by the Society, it should appeal more strongly to the rest of New Zealand, more especially as the larger proportion of the awards h:nl gem' to portions of the colony outside. Cant.ibr.ry. 