The Boys. Brigade Gazette Volume 3-5 12+

📘 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...the gain on subscriptions. But an augmentation of £10 on the Glasgow Battalion's grant for accommodation and services provided in the Head-Quarters Office nearly balances this deficit. Next, we have an improvement of £3$ 6s. 4d. on sale of publications, but a decrease of £5 7s. id. on advertising and interest, making the final result (exclusive of balance brought forward) an increase of receipts amounting to £52 os. 3d. on the year. Now, on the other side of the account there is an increased expenditure. Two items are in our favour, viz., publications where we have saved.£34 75. id. and the London Meeting, where an undoubted success was secured for only 175. nd, against last year's loss of £10 Ids. nd. The nett increased outlay comes to 30 6s. 7d., and if you deduct this from your gains in revenue you find £21 135. 8d. as the improvement on the year when making comparison with the corresponding items of 1894. But, gentlemen, you began the year under review with £19 7s. iod., while you had only £l Ids. $d. on hand when you entered on the one now current. You would not, I am sure, advocate that the Executive should hold its hand and starve the publications department, or adopt any cutting down policy which might take the edge off the efficiency for which Head-Quart...