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sheep. At Chateau Margot the dead carcasses had 
been carried down to low water mark, and left to be 
carried off by the tide, 
Mr. Luke M. Hill said he took exception to the 
method of disposing of the bodies in the sea, as they got 
stranded near town in front of the Sea Wall, when the 
city authorities had to have them removed and buried. 
The motion was carried. 
A letter from the Government Secretary was read, 
informing the Society, in reply to its communication zx 
re the Imperial Institute, that provision had been made 
in the draft estimate for the next financial year for the 
sum of $1,000 for the representation of the colony at the 
Institute. 
A second letter from the Government Secretary in- 
formed the Society that the Government had no objec- 
tion to Dr. Ferguson visiting the distri€t infeéted with 
the cattle disease. 
The Secretary stated that since forwarding the So- 
ciety’s resolution to the Government he had heard that 
Dr. Ferguson was removed from town to the Anna 
Regina distriét, and also that the disease appeared to be 
dying out. 
It was agreed to allow the matter to remzin in abey- 
ance for the present. 
Mr. T. S. Hargreaves gave notice of motion as fol- 
lows :— 
“That smoking be permitted in the west gallery attached to the 
Reading Room.” 
Mr. W. T. Binnie gave notice of motion as follows :— 
I will move at the next meeting of this Society—that with the view 
of working a system of half times in Primary Schools, divided between 
ordinary studies and agricultural technical education, the managers 
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