FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



the middle and bring about this excellent result. 

 At the same time it must be remembered how much 

 of the spade work — in fact all — is done in the various 

 Committees, meeting monthly in many cases, making 

 proposals to administer the law in the county. 



When I take a look at the County Council Year 

 Book I note on an average each member of the 

 Council sits on six Committees, but it does not 

 follow that he attends at Trowbridge six days a 

 month. The meetings are so arranged to fit in two 

 a day if possible, a morning meeting perhaps and 

 then another to follow in the afternoon. 



What contribution I am able to make in the 

 deliberations is mostly to the Agricultural Committee 

 meetings, of which there are at least six. At the 

 same time my seat on the General Purposes Com- 

 mittee gives work of much interest and at times a 

 certain amount of amusement. Who would miss 

 the days when this Committee sits as a Court to 

 grant or withhold licences for Picture Palaces, or 

 perhaps a Dog Racing track ! To sit, watch and 

 hear the debate coming from both sides is of no 

 small interest or amusement at times. Eminent 

 councillors take the floor to address you with great 

 respect ; with a little imagination one might well 

 think he was sitting in the High Court. Lawyers 

 and witnesses innumerable attend with pomp and 

 ceremony. Not always have I thought our judg- 

 ment supreme when finally we have to decide for 

 or against the applicant of a licence. 



Here, again, the Law is apt to bear a little heavily 

 at times, and the spirit of an Act of Parliament is 



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