Report of Society's Meetings. 423 



Exhibition, to be opened at Nashville, May ist, 1897, there would not 

 be sufficient time for an official representation ; but that public notifi- 

 cation of the exhibition should be given for the benefit of private firms 

 and individuals, who might desire to participate 



2nd. That, with regard to the Universal International Exhibition, to 

 be held in Paris igoo, at which the Home Government are already 

 pledged to be represented, it was desirable that the colony should take 

 part, and that a space of 5,000 sq. ft. be asked for, for the purpose. 

 I have, &c., 



J. J. QUELCH, 



Hon. Secretary, 



Mr. Luke M. Hill moved, and Mr. ^Eneas D. Mackay 

 seconded, that the report be adopted. 



Mr. Jacob Conrad spoke of the question of funds, on 

 which the President stated that all they had to do at 

 present was to give an opinion as to the desirability or 

 otherwise of the colony being represented. 



The Hon. N. D. Davis asked whether the colony 

 would be likely to derive any benefit from the Paris 

 Exhibition. They had been represented at several, but 

 he doubted whether the results were commensurate with 

 the expenditure. 



Mr. Kirke agreed with Mr. Davis ; he himself had 

 represented the colony at the Calcutta Exhibition, but he 

 could not say that any material advantage had been 

 derived. 



The Hon. B. Howell Jones said the sugar and other 

 products of the colony were excluded from France, and 

 he could therefore see no reason for exhibiting them 

 there. 



The President having asked for a vote on the adop- 

 tion of the Report, it was rejected by a majority of one 

 (7 for and 8 against.) 



The Secretary laid upon the table three illuminated 



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