| Description | Minutes of the last meeting approved; death of Mr. John Howard, Agent-General for Nova Scotia; question of copyright of Commission headstones; epidemic of influenza among Commission staff; visit of ex-inspector of the Board of Education (Mr. Murray) to France to investigate the question of education of children of Commission staff; unveiling of Cross of Sacrifice at Mansfield Cemetery, Nottingham, and at Watford Cemetery; visitor book figures for Menin Gate; visit of the High Commissioner for New Zealand to cemeteries in the United Kingdom; report from Colonel Hughes, Deputy Controller in the Near East, regarding difficult conditions for staff; gratuities for temporary staff; examination of the Commission’s Annual accounts by the Public Accounts Committee; Report of the 7th Meeting of the Staff Committee; Report of 174th meeting of the Finance Committee; Vacancies on the Anglo-Belgian and Anglo-French Mixed Committees; Release of deposit held by Commission from the Hopton Wood Stone Firms; Delegation of Financial Powers to Vice-Chairman and Authority to Expend Money for Salaries and Expenses; Falaise Communal Cemetery – request by Souvenir Francais to allow British Grave to be marked by metal cross in similar manner to French Graves on grounds the erection of Commission headstone would spoil uniformity of plot. |