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Mr. Richardson CaiT. the Hon. J. E. Cross. Mr. H. Dudding, Mr. J. T. C. Eadie, 

 Mr. A. E. Evans. Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. W. T. Game, Mr. J. 

 W. Glover, Lord Harlech. Mr. VV. Harrison. Mr. J. H. Hine. Mr. Arthur 

 Hiscock, Mr. R. W. Hobbs. Mr. W. F. Ingram, Sir C. V. Knightley, Bart., Mr. 

 Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews. Mr. W. A. May. Mr. C. Middleton, 

 Mr. G. Norris Midwood. Mr. John Myatt, Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. R. G. 

 Patterson. Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington. Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. W. A. Prout, Mr. 

 F. Reynard. Mr. C. C. Rogers. Mr. John Rowell, Mr. H. Herbert Smith. Mr. E. 

 W. Stanyforth. Mr. C. W. Tindall. Mr. A. P. Turner. Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler, 

 and Mr. L. C. Wrigley. 



Governor. — Mr. Harold Swithinbank. 



The following Members of the Bristol Local Committee attended the 

 meeting of the General Bristol Committee on the previous afternoon : — Mr. 

 Peter Addie (City Valuer), Mr. Henry Bridgman. Mr. R. E. Bush (Sheriff of 

 Bristol), Mr. J. J. Harle, Alderman C. A. Hayes, Mr. Sidney Humphries, 

 Mr. Samuel Kidner. Mr. James Peter, Mr. H. L. Riseley, Mr. Edmund 

 J. Taylor (Town Clerk), Mr. Eldred G. F. Walker, Mr. H. W. Seccombe Wills, 

 and Mr. George Nichols (Hon. I.iocal Secretary). 



The minutes of the last ordinary meeting of the Council, held on Wednes- 

 day, July .SI, and of the special Council held on Tuesday, October 8, were 

 taken as read and confirmed. 



Mr. Frederick E. Muntz, of Umberslade, Hockley Heath, was elected 

 a Governor, and ninety-two duly nominated candidates were admitted into the 

 Society as Members. 



The President announced with sincere regret the deaths, since the Council 

 last met, of Mr. George Taylor, Mr. William Scoby, and Mr. Alfred J. Smith. 

 Mr. George Taylor was the Member of Council for the County of Middlesex, 

 which division he had represented since 1905, and he was known to most of 

 those present as being connected with the breeding of Shorthorns and especially 

 Dairy Shorthorns. His presence amongst them would be greatly missed. Mr. 

 William Scoby had also been well known, particularly in his Lordship's own 

 part of the country. Everybody looked up to him, and he was greatly 

 honoured there. Mr. Alfred Smith, who died recently at the age of seventy- 

 seven, had been a Member of that Council for over twenty years. He would 

 be remembered for his kindly manner to everybody, and as a breeder of Suffolk 

 Cart-horses. His Lordship said it would doubtless be the wish of the meeting 

 that an expression of the Council's regret should be sent to each of the 

 bereaved families. 



Sir Gilbert Greenall said the Council would remember that at the 

 meeting in February last, he had had the honour to hand to his Lordship a 

 letter from the Lord Mayor of Manchester containing an invitation for the 

 Society to hold its annual Show in the city of Manchester in the year 1916. 

 On that occasion the Council unanimously accepted the written invitation, and 

 he now had the pleasure to state that he had been in communication with the 

 Lord Mayor of Manchester, with a result that a deputation from the city and 

 county were present personally to offer the Society a most hearty welcome to 

 Lancashire. Mr. HARRISON then introduced the deputation, which was 

 composed of : — The Lord Mayor of Manchester (Mr. Councillor S. W. Royse), 

 Sir George W. Agnew, Bart., M P., Sir William Bailey, Sir Charles Behrens. 

 Alderman Edward Holt, Mr. Harold Agnew, Mr. J. T. Smith, Mr. Thomas 

 Hudson (Town Clerk), Mr. M. Birtwistle, Mr. J. Herbert Hall, and Mr. J. H. 

 Thewlis. 



The Lord Mayor of Manchester, Sir Charles Behrens, Alder- 

 man Edward Holt, and Sir William Bailey having spoken in support 

 of the invitation, the President thanked the deputation for their attendance. 

 He was sure Sir Gilbert Greenall would do everything he could to make the 

 Show at Manchester a great success ; all they wanted was the weather and 

 the attendance would be as good as they could expect. 



