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J. F. Duncan (Scotland). 



C. B. Fisher. 



G. R. Lane Fox, M.P. 



T. Henderson (Scotland). 



Mrs. Hobbs (Oxon). 



Dr. McFadden. 



W. A. Mount, M.P. 



Mrs. Prothero (afterwards Lady Ernie). 



Leslie Scott, M.P. 



F. Selley. 



R. Small. 



R. J. Thompson. 



Mrs. Watt (Canada). 



There were, of course, many other visitors from time to 

 time whom the spirit did not move to take part in the 

 discussions. 



The meetings varied in interest as well as magnitude. 

 It was not easy to secure a steady succession of subjects and 

 to persuade suitable people to introduce them. As the 

 obligation to maintain the continuity, though properly 

 the duty of the Committee, became mainly one of the 

 perquisites of the President, I am free to confess that the 

 level both of the papers and of the discussions was unequal. 

 The range was wide. " Subjects relating to agricultural and 

 rural development " comprehend plenty of pabulum. There 

 was no deliberate exclusion of farm wages and conditions 

 of labour, but there was a tacit understanding that the 

 subjects lying directly within the province of the Agricul- 

 tural Wages Board should not be prominent in the Club 

 debates. So far as members of the Board were concerned 

 the feeling was that they had more than enough of them at 

 the Board Meetings. Obviously for a discussion Club it 

 is desirable that the subjects introduced should be debatable, 

 and the more controversial the better. The practical 

 exclusion of wages questions therefore narrowed the 

 field to some extent. 



The attendance was never very large, but there was a 

 group of faithful habitues who seldom missed a meeting. 

 At tht foundation of the Club it was contemplated that tht 



