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The Fifty -first General Meeting. 



The Auditors and Committee were also re-elected on the proposition 

 of the Kev. H. E. Whytehead, seconded by Mr. J. U. Powell. 



This practically completed the business of the meeting, at which 

 there was but a small attendance of Members, who forthwith ad- 

 journed to the charming garden of the vicarage, where the Vicar, 

 the Kev. H. R. Whytehead, and Mrs. Whytehead most kindly 

 dispensed tea to a much larger company. THE PARISH CHURCH 

 was next visited, under the guidance of the Vicar, who said all 

 there was to say about the building, and incidentally confessed 

 that there is no foundation for its purely modern designation as 

 "THE MINSTER " beyond the fact that it is "a large church." 

 The one little eleventh century window remains as the sole 

 remnant of the early Church, and the porch, the south aisle of the 

 chancel, and the tower comprise the remaining medieval work. 

 The remainder of the spacious and handsome building is the work 

 of Sir A Blomfield. The Halliday Pew still retains its place in 

 the south aisle of the chancel after its many adventures. 



On account of the somewhat long programme for the evening, 

 THE ANNIVERSARY DINNER at the Town Hall took place at 

 6.30, when sixty-one Members and Associates sat down, with the 

 MARQUESS OF BATH in the chair. The only toast was that of 

 "The King," and the proceedings of the EVENING MEETING 

 began at 7.30 with commendable punctuality. The Town Hall 

 was prettily decorated with flowers, &c, and was quite filled by 

 an audience such as has not been seen at the evening meetings of 

 the Society for very many years past. About a hundred and thirty 

 persons, largely from the town and neighbourhood, were present. 

 The proceedings of the evening began with the delivery of the 

 following 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BY THE MARQUESS OF BATH:- 



" Seven-and-twenty years have elapsed since your Society paid 

 that visit to Warminster when my father occupied this chair 

 vicariously for my noble friend Lord Avebury, whom we would all 

 like to have seen here to-day had it been possible for him to be 



