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arisen by the resignation of the Marquis of Tavistock and by the 
appointment of the Earl of J ersey as Governor-General of New South 
Wales, will come in due course under the consideration of the Council. 
7. The Country Meeting at Plymouth in June last was favoured 
by fine weather, and the Society received from the local authorities 
and the inhabitants of the Three Towns generally a very cordial 
welcome. The show of live stock (particularly of the local breeds 
of cattle and sheep) was universally admitted to be a very good and 
representative one ; and the Trials of Light Portable Motors, Grist 
Mills and Disintegrators lent particular interest to the Implement 
Department. At the request of the Mayor (Mr. H. J. Waring), to 
whom the warmest thanks of the Society are due for his indefatigable 
efforts to promote the success of the Meeting, the experiment was 
tried for the first time of having only one half-crown clay, and 
making the charge for admission on the third day of the Meeting 
(Wednesday) one shilling only. The results were not such as to 
warrant a continuance of the plan, for the two shilling days on 
Wednesday and Thursday caused the attendance on the final day 
(Friday) to drop to 14,026, which is the lowest figure of the last ten 
years. The total attendance of paying visitors at the Meeting was 
97,141, as compared with 155,707 at Windsor in 1889, 147,927 at 
Nottingham in 1888, and 127,372 at Newcastle in 1887. 
8. Opportunity has been taken by the Society's Auditors, when 
checking the accounts for the half-year ended June 30 last, to 
examine and pass the balance-sheet for the Plymouth Meeting. The 
final result is an excess of expenditure over receipts of 2,197?. 7s. Id., 
which will fall to be defrayed out of the Society's general funds. 
A comparison of the various items on both sides of the account with 
those of the Nottingham Show in 1888, when the receipts exceeded 
the expenditure by 4,229/., shows that whilst the expenses of 
administration were about the same on both occasions, the Society 
received this year 1,000/. less for entry-fees and 4,000/. less for 
receipts at the Show itself, and paid 1,000/. more for the construction 
of the Show-yard, owing chiefly to the rise in the price of timber. 
9. The Council have decided that the Doncaster Meeting shall 
commence on Monday, June 22, 1891, and close on the following 
Friday evening. The Implement Yard and the Working Dairy 
will be open to Members of the Society and the public on the 
previous Saturday, June 20. The last day for making entries in 
the Implement Department will be Wednesday, April 1 ; but post- 
entries, of Agricultural Implements only, will be received up to 
Monday, April 6. For Stock, Poultry, and Produce, the entries 
will close on Friday, May 1, with post-entries at double fees up to 
Tuesday, May 12. With the view of keeping the number of 
entries at the Meetings within manageable limits, the Council have 
resolved that no exhibitor shall in future be allowed to make more 
than three entries in any one class. 
