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in the Colonies, and to the efforts of the Poultry Club of N.S.W. in ])articular. The President 
(Mr. H. Montgomerie Hamilton), the Hon. Sec. (Mr. L. L. Ramsay), and the Committee of the above 
Society are all energetic, enthusiastic workers in the interests of Poultry. The President is well known as a 
sterling Fancier among Fanciers, and a gentleman whom it is safe to assert has at heart the furtherance of 
Poultry matters generally. To his guidance, to a very great extent, the phenomenally successful Show held 
by the Society in 1897 is principally due, and we trust that he will long continue to occupy the 
position of President of the Poultry Club of N.S.W. Messrs. Hamilton's and Ramsay's ])hotographs appear 
among our "Australian Fanciers." 
It is to those gentlemen who devote their time and energies to the holding of Shows that the decided 
improvement taking place in Fancy Poultry is solely due, as were the inducement to excel removed, the 
major breeds of Poultry would gradually lapse ; but while the active membership of the " l'"ancy '' is .so 
strongly recruited, there is little fear of retrogression in this respect. 
