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Colonel C. W. Long, M.P., for the Evesham Division of 

 Worcester, who had been Chairman of the Chamber's Railway 

 Committee for several years, was compelled by ill-health to 

 retire this year. The Council expressed their great apprecia- 

 tion of his services and hopes for his early recovery, but he 

 was never able to take up the work again, and his'loss was a 

 very grave one to the Committee. 



In view of proposals for working agreements, meetings 

 were arranged between members of the Railway Committee 

 and the Boards of the Great Western and South- Western 

 Companies, when numerous questions were discussed. 



The Dairy Products Committee tabulated a list of causes 

 of complaint in connection with the railway transit of milk, 

 and requested the Board of Agriculture to arrange a general 

 conference on this subject with railway managers. The 

 Board, however, found this impracticable. 



For many years the Council had been asking that a Bill 

 consolidating all the Railway Traffic Acts might be carried 

 through Parliament, and on one occasion an official at the 

 Board of Trade, when asked to do so, replied that that 

 Department could not undertake such a gigantic task. The 

 Council therefore, at very considerable expense, instructed 

 Mr. Waghorn to draft a Bill which should consolidate the 

 existing law and include certain amendments. No suitable 

 occasion, however, presented itself for the introduction of 

 such an important Bill in this year. 



1911. 



On 21st February the Dairy Products Committee's report 

 on Milk Traffic was adopted, which authorised the Committee 

 to confer with various railway companies with a view to 

 obtaining modifications of the regulations controlling this 

 traffic. Lord Clinton, who was Chairman of the Chamber 

 this year, and who was also a Director of the South- Western 

 Railway Company, arranged an interview with the Traffic 

 Superintendent of that company (Mr. Holmes) on 3rd May. 



