LIFE MEMBERSHIPS.
THE response to our scheme for Life Membership has been most encouraging, both as regards the quantity and the quality of the persons joining, and the applications still come in. We have, in fact, obtained just the body of " sample readers " which we wanted ; a body able to act as the mouthpiece for the average reader and also one from which we can gain information and advice in regard to the subjects dealt with and the general presentation of that publicity which it is our function in the Commonwealth to provide.
We do not mean at present to publish our list of Life Members. That could not be done without the express leave of the members, and we are loth to trouble them with letters. The matter, however, will be well worth considering at our first annual meeting of Life Members.
We have had indications that some of the married Life Members would like to be able to place their wives in the succession. To make a joint membership at ordinary actuarial rates would be a matter of some intricacy, and would probably involve a higher payment than most people would care to make. In order, how- ever, to satisfy a very natural desire, we have deter- mined to admit wives as successors to a husband's membership by the payment of 50 per cent. of the sum paid by the Life Member. Thus, a Life Member who paid ten guineas would pay an additional five guineas in order that, on his death, the paper should be posted weekly to his wife during her life. Only one copy of the paper would, of course, be sent.
We should expect to be informed when the rights of the second life began to be exercised. We do not in the case of this double membership pledge ourselves to accept more than a hundred subscribers.
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