242 GENERAL MEETING AT CHESTER. 



Joint Show Committee, composed of Members of the Horse 

 Show Committees of the respective Councils, and under whose 

 direction the administration of the nine combined Shows has 

 been harmoniously and successfully conducted ; and secondly, 

 by each Council, and it was the unanimous feeling that there 

 were but practically two courses : — That the two Societies 

 should hold their Show without the Eoyal Commission on 

 Horse-Breeding, or the Hunters' Improvement Society should 

 withdraw from the combined Show, and invite the Eoyal 

 Commission on Horse-Breeding to offer the Queen's Premiums 

 at a Show in the following week, 



A Sub-Committee was therefore appointed to investigate 

 the whole question, and their report, presented and unani- 

 mously adopted at a Special Council Meeting, on May 11th, 

 was briefly : — 



" That the Royal Commissiou on Horse-Breeding had favourably 

 considered their proposals to offer the Queen's Premiums at a Show of the 

 Hunters' Improvement Society to be held in March, 1894 ; that satis- 

 factory arrangements had been made with the Royal Agricultural Hall 

 Company for holding such Show in the week following the Hackney Horse 

 Society's Show, and that the Shire Horse Society and Hackney Horse 

 Society, consequent on these arrangements, had consented to liberate the 

 Hunters' Improvement Society from the existing agreement for holding 

 the Shows." 



The thanks of the Society are therefore due to the Eoyal 

 Commission on Horse-Breeding, the two Societies and the 

 Eoyal Agricultural Hall Company for the courtesy with which 

 their representations were received and considered, and to the 

 Members of the Sub-Committee — Major-General Fryer, 

 Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart., Mr. Tanqueray, and Mr. Withers 

 —to whose endeavours the successful issue of the negotiations 

 is due. 



The exigencies of the case necessitate the choice of the 

 second alternative, and though the immediate effect of holding 

 a separate Show will be to increase the expenditure on the 

 Annual Shows, the Council feel assured that the Society, by 

 the establishment of its own Show, has laid the foundation of 

 a prosperous and useful future. 



