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TABLE 3
SGC Ledger and Membership Summary, 1886-1901
£
£ K&D £ £
Year
Inc./ Trib. LGC % LGC
Exp. Rec'd K D A T H Grant Budget
4/86 879 245
10/86 1615 219 2211 1730 18017 21958 118
10/87 2273 413
10/88 1179 397 IOC 5.6
10/89 2069 509 3330 2566 38624 44520 147 100 4.8
10/90 2114 454 3529 2775 44432 50736 152 150 7.0
10/91 2136 469
10/92 1985 381 150 7.5
10/93 1666 269 150 9.0
10/94 1434 319 140 9.7
10/95 1300 283 120 9.2
10/96 1182 264 120 10.1
10/97 1061 241 120 11.3
10/98 1036 203 120 11.5
10/99 997 163 4172 3501 73399 81072 120 12.0
10/00 1105 214 4222 3569 75496 83287 120 10.8
10/01 1075 180 4316 3652 78021 85989 86 120 11.1
Average 10.8
The growing prominence of women in the League led quite
naturally to questions concerning its status as a women's organization
and, more importantly, its stand on suffrage.
The LGC executive
repeatedly rejected all proposals for affiliation with other women's
organizations, emphasizing that it was not a female association and
occupying a subsidiary status to the governing Grand Council.30
More troublesome to the Ladies' executive was the recurring
issue of women's suffrage.
Women ratepayers had gradually been
30
Ibid., 4 November 1892; 18 November 1892; 7 February 1895;
5 November 1897.