proposal as interfering too much with private 

 enterprise. 



I have been a great deal exercised all through 

 the year in the matter of the Queen's Plates, and my 

 own feeling is very much in favour of giving 

 prizes for thoroughbred stallions at Agricultural 

 Shows and so on. But the amount is not very 

 large — about ^^3,500 — and I found the difficulty 

 great, and that we were also going againa 

 principle of the original institution of the Oi 

 Plates, that I was obliged to give up that idea. 



My friend. Lord Enfield, in the House of L 

 gave notice of a motion for inquiry with regard to 

 this question, but after he had obtained a great deal 

 of information from foreign countries, he came to the 

 conclusion that we cannot move at all in the matter, 

 because, he says, it is so entirely out of the question 

 for anything of the sort to be undertaken in this 

 country, owing to the enormous expense attending it. 



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Sir Nigel Kixgscote: I do not know that I have 

 any business to make any remarks to you, but this 

 is a most important subject, and one that I have 

 taken interest in for some time past. His Grace the 

 Duke of Westminster has just said that he has been 

 in favour of the Queen's Plates money being given 

 in prizes to thoroughbred horses for getting half- 

 bred stock. That has been my opinion for a very 

 long time. I felt that it was useless for the Govern- 

 ment to start studs like they do in foreign countries, 



