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hope that Mr. Nunan may be right when he says that when we go away 

 we may not have disappointed you. (Applause.) 



A specially interesting part of the programme was then proceeded 

 with, numerous beautiful lantern slides of scenes in Georgetown and 

 places on the way to Mount Roraima, by way of Wismar, Rockstone and 

 Kaieteur Falls, being shown. The pictures, which were from photos 

 taken by Sir Crossley Rayner (Attorney General) and Professor Crampton, 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, were breezily described by 

 Sir Crossley. 



Thereafter the programme was resumed. It was sustained admirably 

 by Mrs. J. B. Cassels, Miss Stephenson, Miss Downer (New Amsterdam), 

 and Mr. H. Hill (vocalists), and Mr. Allan Webb (violinist), with Miss 

 Nellie Simpson as the accompanist. 



To these artists and to Sir Crossley Rayner hearty votes of thanks 

 were accorded, on the motion of the President. 



The conversazione proper then took place, an hour being very 

 pleasantly whiled away in social intercourse. 



The whole proceedings passed off most successfully. 



APPENDIX II. 



Correspondence. 



September 15th, 1913. 



Sir, 



In my article " Railways Ten Years After " which appeared in 

 your Special Colony Number for July, 1912, there was a short digression 

 on the following theme : " We are treating the symptoms of our disease 

 and not its cause. This colony in its struggle for life is not stripped for 

 action." " It is useless to hold the executive to blame in what is virtually 

 a self-governing colony. The Combined Court has called the tune." It 

 referred to the consumption of the colony's resources in unproductive 

 institutions, official and unofficial, steadily increasing in number, suitable 

 to the four mile radius from Charing Cross but too expensive for an 

 undeveloped and stationary, a poor but ambitious colony. They had 

 grown with our growth and strengthened with our strength but had con- 

 tinued to increase with our diminution and waxed fat on our decay. 



Incidentally the Borstal System as a supplement to Onderneeming 

 School was referred to among other institutions by way of illustration of 

 the ruling fads of the hour. I regret to learn from the Press of last 



