Annual Meeting.

This year's Annual. Meeting will be held in the Y.W.C.A. Rooms, Moray Place, and as the schools will be closed at the time of the Diamond Jubilee celebration, it is to be hoped there will be a record attendance.

The Committee unsuccesfully endeavoured to procure for the schools a fortnight's holiday in connection with the Record Reign Celebration. In doing so it was prompted by the fact that schools usually get one week at Midwinter, and it therefore thought that, to mark the very exceptional event, an extended holiday might be granted to the children.

The Committee regrets being unable to have the Annual Report in the hands of the teachers at an earlier date. As the meeting this year, has been brought forward about three weeks, this has caused the Annual Meeting of the Institute to follow very closely upon the Annual Meeting of the branches.

As in former years, the Institute is indebted to the Education Board for the use of the Normal School and for issuing circulars to School Committees advising the closing of the schools; and to the Inspectors for kindly refraining from holding examinations during the week immediately following the holidays.

The Report issued this year is intentionally more exhaustive than was the case in previous years. The Institute passed through a crisis last year and now that it stands on a firm basis it has been thought advisable to make the report fuller so" that non-members may not plead ignorance of the Institute's work and may be in a position to realize the necessity for falling into line.