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mote the interests of agriculture. They wanted a 
paper coming out at short intervals so that people might 
be kept posted in what was going on. He put it to 
them whether the time had not arrived for the Society to 
have its own agricultural paper. Information on agri- | 
cultural matters, papers on scientific subjeéts, and reports 
from agricultural centres could be circulated through this 
medium. He was quite certain that such a paper would 
interest the planting community and others. This was 
a dire€tion in which the Society should expend some of 
its energy. He knew of such papers in colonies less 
important than this. He also thought they should do 
everything to further the great sugar industry. It might 
be said that this could look after itself, and no doubt 
there were men of abllity conneéted with it fully compe- 
tent to carry it on as successfully as known skill could 
do. But they could not but recognise the fact that it 
was struggling under great difficulties. He was not one 
of those who despaired, for he believed that better times 
were in store, and that it would always rest on a sound 
basis and be the mainstay of the colony. What he wished 
to say was this. Mutual co-operation was wanting and 
if they made their society a living and real organisation— 
one dealing aétively and intelligently with the matters 
he had mentioned,—was it not certain that good results 
would follow? In the same way that the farmers in 
England looked on their Royal Agricultural Society, so 
the leading agriculturists of this colony would come 
and join this Society aud take counsel together. Ina 
lesser degree, also, the smaller industries such as cattle- 
farming, cocoa, coffee, provision and fruit-growing could 
be fostered by the Society. All these were matters in 
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