20?> The ^'or^ncll Show, 1911. 



The General Meeting of Governors and Members was held 

 at noon on June 27, in the large tent, when the Acting- 

 President read a telegram from the King expressing His 

 Majesty's hopes for the success of the Show, which he looked 

 forward to visiting on the following day. Much interest was 

 displayed in the announcement of the awards of the Judges 

 in the competitions for the best managed Farms, Plantations, 

 and Home Nurseries, and for designs of Buildings for Small 

 Holdings. Thanks were tendei-ed by the meeting to the Lord 

 Mayor and Corporation, the Local Committee, the Great Eastern 

 Railway, and to Mr. Russell Colman, for the valuable assistance 

 given by them in various ways. (The full report of the 

 proceedings will be found at page xxv of the Appendix.) 



The judging in the Horticultural Exhibition took place 

 in the morning of Tuesday, and at 2 p.m. this section was 

 opened to the public. 



On Wednesday, the principal event was, of course, the' 

 official visit of His Majesty The King, President of the Society. 

 Leaving London by special train, His Majesty arrived at Thorpe 

 station a few minutes after noon, and at St. Andrew's Hall 

 received a loyal address from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and 

 citizens of Norwich. The following is an extract from, this 

 address : 



" We hail Your Majesty's presence liere to-day as a happy augury for 

 the continuance of that Royal interest in agriculture which in the past 

 has so greatly promoted the welfare of the chief iTidustry of this portion 

 of Great Britain." 



In the course of his reply, the King said : 



"My presence here as President of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England indicates my wish and intention to promote as far as in me 

 lies the advancement and intei'est of agriculture and the breeding of stock, 

 an industry not only of value to this locality but of capital importance to 

 the Kingdom and to my whole Empire. It is my earnest wish to follow 

 in my father's footsteps, and to give encouragement, countenance and 

 support to all well-directed efforts for the benefit of agriculture, and for 

 the welfare of all classes of my people who are engaged in agricultural 

 production." 



Before leaving St. Andrew's Hall, His Majesty conferred 

 the honour of Knighthood u])on the Lord Mayor, Mr. Eustace 

 Gurney, whose father, the late Mr. John Gurney, as Mayor 

 of Norwich twenty-five years earlier, received the Prince of 

 Wales (King Edward), on the occasion of the Society's Show 

 in LSSC. 



The Royal party then drove to the Market Place, where 

 the school children of the city — numbering many thousands — 

 were assembled to greet His Majesty, and thence, by way 

 of Bracondale to the Showground, at the entrance to which, 

 the Honorary Director, Sir Gilbei-t Greenall. on horse-back, met 



