176 The Doncaster Show, 1912. 



exhibition animals, freedom of movement may now be greatly restricted 

 at any moment. 



" It is, moreover, possible, that infection may be conveyed to the Show, 

 although with show animals this seems to be unlikely. If any animal has 

 run any risk of contact with suspected animals it should certainly be sent 

 back from Doncaster without being allowed to be untrucked to-morrow 

 morning. 



" Since these directions were received the disease has been found to 

 exist at Reid's, Lupset Pastures, VVakefield. Order will issue to-night." 



On receipt of thii, the Honorary Director and the Secretary, 

 with such Members of Council as were at Doncaster and could 

 be got together at that late hour, held a hurried meeting to 

 discuss the situation. It was then decided to distribute copies 

 of this telegram to all those in charge of stock, with a note in 

 the following words : 



Exhibitors or those in charge of cattle, sheep, or pigs, may make 

 arrangements for the immediate removal of their stock, should they think 

 it desirable. 



Gilbert Gkeenall, Honorary Birector. 



It was then midnight on the Sunday, but the message was 

 sent over the telephone to Shefiield, copies were printed and 

 brought to Doncaster by motor, and by daybreak on Monday, 

 had been distributed to all the men in charge of cattle, sheep 

 and pigs. 



Up to this time, there was still the possibility of an ex- 

 hibition of stock. The final blow, however, came at 8.45 that 

 Monday morning, when the following telegram was received 

 from the Board of Agriculture : 



" Board are making Order prohibiting exhibition cattle, shee[), swine, 

 Doncaster." 



Arrangements were immediately made with the railway 

 companies for the removal of the stock, and an Inspector of 

 the Board arrived in the yard during the morning, for the 

 purpose of issuing permits for the animals to leave, a task 

 which was not finished until a late hour that evening. No 

 less than 2,249 entries were involved, and about fifteen hun- 

 dred of these had actually reached the Showyard, while the 

 others were in various stages of transit. 



Such excellent arrangements were made by the railway 

 companies with the assistance of the Show officials that all 

 the animals in the prohibited sections had been despatched 

 from the Show before the doors were thrown open to the 

 public on the morning of Tuesday, July 2. As a mark of 

 their appreciation of the excellent services rendered by Mr. 

 George Bolt, Divisional Superintendent of the Great Northern 

 Railway, the Council requested Mr. Bolt to accept a piece of 



