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parties, by having a frank talk with these people, and by the various 

 lectures given in the centres of industry, a great educational work 

 had been performed, which was of inestimable value for the promotion 

 of cotton growing. 



The Minister continued : "In the name of the Government I 

 thank again Mr. Pearse and his colleagues of the Mission for the 

 honourable visit and for the beneficial advice given in his lecture which 

 the National Agricultural Society will have printed in a large edition 

 and circulated all over Brazil, a step which will undoubtedly co-operate 

 towards the economic improvement of the country." 



He further spoke of the important role which England occupied 

 in the cotton industry. Indeed, he said, Lancashire might be called 

 a jiast-master of cotton spinning. England is a leading country in the 

 organisation of the International Cotton Federation and he con- 

 gratulated this Corporation for having readily consented to send this 

 Mission. 



Terminating his remarks he again thanked the Mission and those 

 who had been good enough to accejat the invitation of the Society, 

 .signalling out the presence of the Minister of War, through whose 

 action when President of the Brazilian Commercial Mission that visited 

 England, must be attributed the fact that the Pearse Mission came 

 to Brazil. 



Addressing himself to the Minister of War, he said : "It was 

 indeed on the occasion of a banquet offered to your Excellency in 

 Manchester that this very idea suggested itself after the honourable 

 discourse pronounced by the great leader of the cotton spinning 

 industry of Lancashire — the late Sir Herbert Dixon, Bart. — and we 

 well remember the brilliant response which Dr. Callogeras made. 



This terminated the meeting:. 



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