Wilson, Albert.. Ο ΙΟ O Wrench, E. Yorke, Miss H. (1918 and 1919) Zimmern, A. E. I 26 O O O O O c o oooo 6909 I I O 0 5 0 I I O To Totals as per Account £777 3 6 £140 8 6 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1919. EXPENDITURE. £ s. d. £ s. d. 630 237 16 35 7 Papers, etc., 159 O 71 70 2 10 17 10 I I 8 21 416 Expenses of Meetings, Lectures, etc. Travelling Expenses Stationery, Typing, Office Salaries 671 4 18 10 " and Sundry Expenses 21 4 3 1,603 15 10 INCOME. By Legacies, less 20 per cent. thereof transferred to Received from Committee for the Welfare of Africans in Europe toward office accommodation, clerical assistance, etc. Fees received from Lectures Sundries .. Excess of Expenditure over Income carried to Balance Sheet 0692 00 300 £1,603 15 101 629 6 6 436 12 3 ASSETS. Balance at debit Sundry Investments at cost: £520 2s. Id. Victorian Govt. 3% *£1,000 Gas Light and Coke Co. 3% £1,000 New Zealand 3% Inscribed £185 11s. 4d. New Zealand 3% In- £301 Grand Trunk Pacific Rly. 4% *£150 5% War Loan 1929-47 (Bonds) *£400 5% War Bonds (Inscribed) 400 We have audited the above Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 1919, with the Books and Vouchers of the Society and certify same to be correct. We have verified the Investments. (Sgd.) FAIRBAIRN, WINGFIELD & WYKES, Chartered Accountants. Protection Society President: SIR THOMAS FOWELL VICTOR BUXTON, BART. Chairman of General Committee: LORD HENRY CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, M.P Vice-Chairman of General Committee : Treasurer: E. WRIGHT BROOKS, Esq., J.P. Secretary: TRAVERS BUXTON, M.A. Organizing Secretary: JOHN H. HARRIS. Hon. Lecturer : MRS. JOHN H. HARRIS. Chairman of Parliamentary Committee: RIGHT HON. J. W. WILSON, M.P. Bankers: BARCLAY'S BANK, LTD. 95 Victoria Street, S.W.1 Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London. INDENTURED PARLIAMENTARY: BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY: LABOUR IN FIJI: PEACE TERMS, COLONIAL MANDATES: GERMANY'S Published under the sanction and at the Offices of The Anti-Slavery & Aborigines Protection Society 51 Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road London, S.W.I Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend. JULY, 1919. [The Editor, whilst grateful to all correspondents who may be kind enough to furnish him with information, desires to state that he is not responsible for the views stated by them, nor for quotations which may be inserted from other journals. The object of the journal is to spread information, and articles are necessarily quoted which may contain views or statements for which their authors can alone be held responsible.] Death of the President of the Society. THE Society has suffered a most grievous loss by the unexpected death of its President, Sir Victor Buxton, owing to a motor accident on May 26. Sir Victor slipped against the door of the car and fell out, in trying to change his seat, when the wheel passed over his leg, which was seriously fractured. The accident took place near his own lodge gates at Warlies, and Sir Victor was taken to the Epping Cottage Hospital, but unfortunately complications ensued, which rendered amputation necessary, and he passed away on the afternoon of the 31st. In the very week of the accident Sir Victor had arranged to visit Paris on behalf of the Society, to interview representatives of the British Government upon the question of the Mandatories under the League of Nations, to which the Society attaches so much importance. It was characteristic of our President's ungrudging readiness to undertake tasks in the interests of native races that he should have made this plan at a very busy time; only a few days previously he was entertaining Africans, on behalf of the Committee for the Welfare of Africans in Europe, at a reception given by himself and Lady Buxton to discuss the project of establishing a hostel for members of the African race in London. It is very difficult to write adequately about Sir Victor and all that his loss means to the Society which he served so well; only those who knew him can attempt to appreciate the value of his work and the depth of the loss sustained. Succeeding his father as President of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society at the end of 1915, Sir Victor, who had not accepted the post without careful consideration and inquiry into the responsibilities involved, threw himself into the Society's activities with characteristic energy, and during the three and a half years of his Presidency, he has served the cause of native races with whole-hearted zeal and devotion. The period-nearly all of it war-time-has been one of difficulty for the Society, which has had issues of great magnitude to face. The two main |