THE KENNEL CLUB. 
quences socially. It therefore behoves the 
various bodies possessing power to decide 
that a man or a woman is unfit to take 
part in racing, coursing, dog showing, foot- 
ball, or what not, to see that the very ut- 
most care is exercised that nothing has 
been overlooked in their investigations which 
shall give the accused person every oppor- 
tunity of proving innocence. 
It may be stated that the procedure 
adopted by the Kennel Club in cases under 
the penal rule is as near perfection as it 
can be, and that accused persons have 
every opportunity given them of defending 
themselves. The taking of evidence is based 
on the procedure in the Courts of Law, and 
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where witnesses are unable -to attend at 
the hearing of a complaint, their statutory 
declarations are necessary, if their evidence 
in writing is to be admitted. 
If authorities are to repress malpractices, 
they must use their power in no uncertain 
manner, but, as the Kennel Club has dis- 
covered, there is no stronger aid to such 
power than full publicity being given to 
the proceedings before them, and so long 
as the public know why a person is declared 
to be unfit to race, course, exhibit dogs, 
etc., the decision will be received, if with 
regret for the necessity, at any rate with 
a full knowledge of the facts which led the 
authorities to arrive at their decision. 
KENNEL 
CLUE, 
Patron: 
HIS MAJESTY 
Preside 
H.R.H. 
THE KING. 
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THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT, K.G. 
Vice-Presidents : 
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, K.G. 
HENRY RICHARDS. 
Trustees: MARK BEAUFOY. FRAN 
Chairman of Committee: J. 
Vice-Chairman of Committe 
LORD ALGERNON GORDON LENNOX. 
J. H. SALTER. 
CIS REDMOND. 
SIDNEY TURNER. 
e: J. C. TINNE. 
J. A. HOSKER. 
Honorary Treasurey : DESMOND O’CONNELL. 
Committee for 1907: 
Cc. H. Backhouse. 
Mark Beaufoy. 
A. Bromet. 
‘Colonel Claude Cane. 
Harding Cox. 
A. Croxton-Smith. 
T. Duerdin Dutton. 
Arnold Gillett. 
Percy Heaton. 
V. B. Johnstone. 
Harry Jones. 
A. Maxwell. 
C. A. Phillips. 
J. Babington Gilliat, D.S.O. 
Walter S. Glynn. 
Lieut.-Col. C. Heseltine. 
J. W. Ross. 
L. Allen Shuter. 
H. Handley Spicer. 
W. Stephens. 
W. R. Temple. 
J. C. Tinne (Vice-Chairman). 
J. Sidney Turner (Chaiyman). 
T. Whaley. 
Representatives on the Committee : 
Birmingham Dog Show Society. 
Scottish Kennel Club. 
H. Richards. C. H. Graham, 
John Wilmot. G. G. Tod. 
Committee of the Ladies’ Branch : 
Mrs. G. Thorburn Addis. Mrs. Claude Cane. Lady Lewis. 
Mrs. F. M. Barnett. Mrs. Charles H. Chapman. Mrs, Oliphant (Chaivyman), 
Mrs. Barry. Comtesse de Cholet. Mrs. Scaramanga. 
Mrs. Bennett-Edwards Mrs. Harcourt Clare. Mrs. Gerald Spencer. 
(Vice-Chairman). Mrs. Ashton Cross, Mis. Strick. 
Mrs. Graves. 
Secretary. E. W. 
JAQUET. 
Offices : 7; Grafton Street, London, W. 
