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Society to contribute towards the memorial to Sir John 

 Lavves which was done. The Committee had also 

 applied to the Government, with consent of Professor 

 Harrison, to allow the Government Chemist to analyse 

 articles of general interest free of charge. He was 

 sorry to say that up to the present they had received no 

 reply, which was regrettable as the matter was one of 

 great importance. It was not their intention to deal 

 with foodstuffs, which came under the adulteration a6t, 

 but other matters, of which he would name one — the 

 value of different qualities of megass as fuel. Of course 

 there were other things of importance which could betaken 

 up and prove of benefit to the community generally. This 

 had been the work of the Committee. He trusted that 

 during the present year more interest would be taken in 

 the meetings, and that the members would awaken to the 

 importance of discussing and exchanging ideas on sub- 

 jects which interested a large portion of the Society and 

 the community as well. He would only say further that 

 as he had been re-eleCled Chairman he would do his best 

 to promote the agricultural interests of the Society, and 

 hoped that the meetings would be better attended in 

 future and that the results would be worthy of the agri- 

 culturists of the colony. 



The Secretary reported the following ele6lions of 

 Office-Bearers for 1894, by the respe6live Committees. 



Agricultural Committee — Chairman : Hon. B. Howell 

 Jones; Vice-Chairman : Prof, J. B. Harrison ; Secretary: 

 Mr. S. R. Cochran. 



Commercial Committee — Chairman : Hon. W. H. 

 Sherlock ; Vice-Chairman : Mr. T. H. Glennie ; Secre- 

 tary : Mr. J. Y. Baldwin. 



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