1932 Convention Report

              8 A L B E R T A W O M E N ' S I N S T I T U T ES
A great deal of time at the recent Council meeting was devoted to dis­cussion
of financial affairs and an effort to work out a balanced budget. The
results from these deliberations will be presented at the 1933 convention for
your consideration. Meanwhile several officers volunteered reduction in ex­pense
allowances for the current year. The President graciously accepted
$ 200- 00 for tier expense account: the Business Secretary- Treasurer volunteered
a reduction of $ 100.00 in salary; the Recording Secretary declined the usual
yearly honorarium of $ 50,00, and the Superintendent of W . I . G . C . will meet all
expense connected with her work out of the annual allowance of § 150.00.
Please note that your officers are sharing curtailment of expenses with you.
That we have found it expedient to reduce our running expenditures
should cause no discouragement nor undue alarm. It is only a matter of
good, sound business to live within our income, even by forfeiting some of
the luxuries to which we have been accustomed. It will do us no harm and
undoubtedly will result in the discovery of talents and opportunities never
dreamed of heretofore. Alberta Women's Institutes are not bankrupt, nor do
we intend to reach that deplorable state if careful and judicious management
w i l l prevent.
E L L A L. B E A U B I E R.
REPORT OF BUSINESS S E C R E T A R Y - T R E A S U R ER
Mrs. J. Regan, Edmonton.
It is with pleasure that I present my report as Business Secretary-
Treasurer. In checking over the Institute register I find that we now have
263 ac'. ive branches, of this number nine were organized since last Convention.
D i s t r i c t No. 1 : H i n t e r l a n d at Hines Creek, Lymburn at Hythe and Little
Smoky at H i g h Prairie. District No. 2: T h o r h i l d . District No. 3: Buck Lake
at Minnehik. Beaverflat at R o c k y Mountain [ House, lone at Monitor. U n i ty
at Dovercourt and Foreman. Notice ' has been received during the year that
nine Institutes have found it necessary to disorganize and sixteen Branches
that have not been active for several years, but until recently have never
been declared dead, have also been taken from the books.
Y e a r l y report forms were returned by 220 Institutes, showing a member­ship
of 4269, and the amount raised bv these Institutes during the vear was
$ 42.', 97./ 0; of this amount $ 3,964.31 was spent for P u b l i c Health, $ 1,863.28 for
Education, $ 9,875.25 for Community Betterment and $ 544X9 was given to other
organizations. Approximately $ 4, r00.00 of the amount shown for Community
Betterment was spent on local relief of the unemployed and their families.
D u r i n g the summer and fall of 1931, 37 Constituency Conferences were
held with a total attendance of 2,625. District No. 4 again held their District
Conference in Lethbridge, and it was very well attended and proved successful
in every way.
When p r i n t i n g our h s t Annual Report we were again successful in selling
advertising and you w i l l be pleased to know that the advertisements Daid
two- thirds of the cost of p r i n t i n g the Report.
M o n t h l y repcrt forms and envelopes addressed to our P u b l i c i t y Secretary
w i l l be supplied free of charge upon application to my office. Minute and
Cash Books are $ U 0 per set. H i u d b o o k s are 25c each, A l b e r t a Women's
Institute Pins are 35c each, and Federated Women's Institute Pins are 75c each.