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The Council, desii'ing to enlist the sympathies of hunting 

 men, have resolved that an Honorary Corresponding Member 

 shall be appointed in each Hunt in the United Kingdom, who 

 shall make known the objects of the Society, and shall use his 

 best endeavours to obtain new Members in his particular 

 district. 



But, after all, the efforts of individual Members have the 

 most direct and beneficial effect to the Society, and this 

 report embodying the proposals to hold a separate Show with 

 the Eoyal Commission on Horse-Breeding — essentially a Show 

 having as its main object the improvement and promotion of 

 the Breed of Hunters, should act as an incentive to all 

 Members to endeavour to obtain even one new Subscriber, as 

 such additions would soon double the present Membership. 



The Council have invested the sum of £500 of the Society's The 

 Funds in 2f per cent. Consolidated Stock, and as the first punds. 

 contribution to the Eeserve Fund, the Council may well con- 

 gratulate the Society on its growing financial prosperity, 

 having special regard to the large sum in Premiums and 

 Medals annually offered in London and at the Country Shows. 

 A sum of £200 is also on deposit, while £239 was, on May 

 24th, standing to the credit of the Society's current account. 



Some measure of this satisfactory condition is due to the The recent 

 financial result of the last Show at the Eoyal Agricultural g^ow 

 Hall. Increased receipts in the Grand Stands, Catalogue 

 Sales, and in the " Gate," reduced the expenditure on the 

 1893 Show to £429 7s. 6d., as compared with £557 7s. 2d. 

 in 1892. 



But the increasing entries and Members of both the Future 



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Hackney and Hunters' Improvement Societies have so taxed shows. 



the accommodation at the disposal of the Joint Show Com- 

 mittee that on the conclusion of the recent Show it was 

 felt that some change in the arrangements was inevitable. 

 The whole question was therefore discussed ; firstly by the 



