XXX General Meeting, July 4, 191^. 



tremeudous amount of work, timo, and trouble they had given in their 

 endeavour to make the show the success they knew it would have been, but 

 for the unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances, of which they were all 

 aware. He was sure that every member of the Council and of the Society 

 felt that they owed a deep debt of gratitude to the Doncaster Local Com- 

 mittee, for all they had done, and it was therefore with very great pleasure that 

 he proposed : " That the best thanks of the Society are due, and are hereby 

 tendered, to the Doncaster Local Committee, for their exertions to promote the 

 success of the Show." While mentioning the Local Committee, he did not 

 think he ought to leave out the Town Clerk (Mr. Tovey), and Mr. F. H. Chafer 

 (the Local Secretary) whose father had acted in a similar capacity when the 

 Show was held there twenty-one years ago. They had given of their best to 

 the work of the Society, and they all felt greatly indebted to them for what 

 they had done. 



Mr. Frederick Reynard cordially endorsed all that had been said by 

 Sir Gilbert Greenall, and had great pleasure in seconding the resolution, which 

 was then passed unanimously. 



Railway Companies thanked. 



Mr. F. S. W. CORNWALLIS, in proposing a resolution of thanks to the rail- 

 way companies, said the President had already testified to the exceptional 

 difficulties which the companies had had to contend with this year. That 

 meeting, he was certain, would heartily endorse what had been said in that 

 respect. The railway people had successfully dealt with the new problems 

 that had arisen, and he was sure the thanks of them all were due to the 

 companies concerned. 



Mr. J. Howard Howard said that if ever the railways deserved a vote 

 of thanks it was on that occasion. He thought the way in which they handled, 

 within twenty-four hours, that enormous traffic of cattle, sheep, and pigs, and 

 despatched them within the day was perfectly prodigious, and a marvel of 

 organisation. If those present went beyond that, and could realize that 

 within the next ten days there would scarcely be a ton of machinery left in 

 the showground, he thought they would agree with him that it was marvellous. 

 He had great pleasure iu seconding the resolution, which was carried 

 unanimously. 



Suggestions of Members. 



The President then inquired if any Governor or Member had any remarks 

 to make, or suggestions to offer for the consideration of the C^ouncil 



Mr. Edward Owen Greening, as one of the oldest Members of the 

 Society, expressed " from the ranks" a word of sympathy with the Council in 

 a complication of difficulties that he had not known during the half-century he 

 had followed the interests of the Society. They ought to be grateful to the 

 Council, he said, for the wisdom that had built up a great reserve fund ready 

 for an emergency of this kind. If there should, unhappily, be a deficit on the 

 Show, they would meet it with certainty and courage. The Society was able to 

 stand an occasional loss of this kind, for it was never better equipped for its 

 great work, and there never was a time when greater opportunities for work 

 lay before it. Mr. Greening suggested that, following the example of the 

 International Horse Show at Olympia, the Society should introtluce Bending 

 and other competitions for Polo ponies as a feature that would interest the 

 public. 



The President said he had no doubt the Council would take Mr. Greening's 

 suggestion into consideration. 



Mr. Lawrence C. Tipper (Birmingham), referring to the action taken by 

 the Board of Agriculture and the Council of the Society in connection with the 

 outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, said that he and, he tliought, most of 

 them were entirely in accord with that action. Unfortunately, he had had to 

 do with the last outbreak of "Cattle Plague ' under the Privy Council, and 



