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good chance of obtaining mechanics from the Panama Canal, as the works 

 were being closed down. Now was their chance to secure them. If 

 they lost this opportunity he thought it would be a long time before 

 another such would occur. There had been many lectures given during 

 the past year and he hoped to be able to arrange for some more during 

 the present year. Mr. Rodway had been giving some lectures to the 

 children — Chats about Guiana — and he proposed to continue them. His 

 next was to be about the ups and downs of the industries of the colony. 

 He would like to hear it, but he thought it might be painful, there would 

 be more downs than ups. 



He thought the Society owed a great debt of gratitude to Mr. 

 Nunan, the late President, who, he assured them, was not at all 

 responsible for their financial position, which, on another occasion, he 

 had described as a very healthy sign, because it showed that although 

 they could not get money they could still spend it. He thought it was 

 the same with the colony ; it could not get money but it spent it. He 

 again urged the members to do all they could for the Society. He 

 referred to the Agricultural Committee and said that he proposed to call 

 it together in the near future and let them elect a chairman, and then 

 would formulate plans for the future. He again asked the members for 

 their assistance. 



The Society's debit balance on June 30th, 1913, was $188.33 after 

 defraying the large special expenditure of extension and renovation. 

 -(Ed.) 



