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receiving the amount of time and attention which is due to 
them. But the appointment of a Committee to consider an 
important subject of this kind in all tropical countries is really 
the best and most effective method, I think, of dealing with 
this matter. I have very great pleasure in seconding the 
resolution which Sir Horace Plunkett has proposed, and it 
is for you to say whether it shall be adopted by this meeting 
or not. 
The resolution was put to the Congress, and carried 
unanimously. 
On the motion of the President a vote of thanks was 
accorded unanimously to Sir Horace Plunkett for presiding. 
