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yard had been erected, and 4.000 feet 
of implement shedding built; that 
the grand stand, dairy, and some re- 
freshment sheds were in hand ; and 
that the Local Committee were pull- 
ing down the wall fences inside the 
show-ground, and had made arrange- 
ments to lay the water services. A 
letter had been read from Sir W. 
Gilstrap as to luncheon accommoda- 
tion for Governors in the Showyard, 
and the Committee recommended that 
the same privileges in this respect be 
accorded to Governors as to Members 
of Council. 
The Committee recommended the 
acceptance of the following offers to 
provide appliances at the Plymouth 
Showyard free of charge : Messrs. 
Page, Keen, &; Page, a clock for the 
turret at the entrance to the Show- 
yard; Messrs. John Bellamy & Co., 
water tanks ; Messrs. W. <fc T. Avery, 
a large weighbridge ; Mr. J. S. Inman, 
the building of the bandstand. 
Selection. 
The recommendations of this Com- 
mittee as to the vacancies on the 
Council having been read, 
Earl Cathcabt moved, Mr. Saxday 
seconded, and it was unanimously 
resolved, that Mr. Jos. P. Terry, of 
Berry Field, Aylesbury, nominated at 
the last meeting, be elected a Member 
of Council, to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of Mr. Herbert J. Little. 
Earl Cathcabt said that, as the 
Council would be aware, a list of re- 
tiring Members of Council, with their 
attendances at the Committee and 
Council meetings, had to be prepared 
at that meeting in anticipation of the 
general meeting on May 22. Under 
bye-law 23 (b), Members who did not 
attend meetings of the Council at 
least twice in each year were disquali- 
fied from being re-elected, but the 
Council reserved to themselves the 
right of waiving that provision in 
favour of any one if they saw just 
cause to do so. There were two re- 
tiring Members of Council who had 
not attended the prescribed number 
of times during the last two years 
(the Earl of Jersey and Mr. Sheraton), 
and it was the opinion of himself and 
of his colleagues on the Selection 
Committee, that this bye-law should 
be waived in favour of Lord Jersey. 
His lordship had been in India, and 
since his return, as all in that room 
knew, had been very much indisposed. 
Lord Jersey had expressed a wish 
that no bye-law should be stretched 
in his behalf, but said that if the 
Council were disposed to apply the 
saving clause in his favour, he would 
be anxious to attend and do all that 
he could for the Society. Lord Jersey 
was a very valuable member of the 
Council, and therefore the Committee 
hoped that in his case the bye-law 
might be waived. 
A formal motion to this effect hav- 
ing been unanimously passed, Earl 
Cathcabt said that there would thus 
be two vacancies to fill up at the 
general meeting, one caused by the 
election of Mr. Chaplin as a vice- 
president, and the other by the retire- 
ment of Mr. Sheraton. 
Education. 
Mr. Dent (Chairman) reported 
that Mr. Foster had been added to 
the Committee to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Mr. Little. 
Copies of the new Education Code, 
and of a bill introduced by Mr. Jesse 
Collings and others for "industrial 
agricultural education in public ele- 
mentary schools," had been laid upon 
the table. A total of seventeen can- 
didates had entered for the senior 
examination to take place next month, 
and the time table for the examina- 
tion had been settled. 
Dairy. 
The Hon. Cecil T. Pabkeb 
(Chairman) reported that various 
details as to the Dairy and Produce 
Departments of the Plymouth Show 
had been discussed and settled. The 
show of old cheese in past years not 
having proved thoroughly satisfac- 
tory, the Committee did not suggest 
the offer of prizes for cheeses made 
in 1890 in connection with the 
country meeting at Doncaster in 
1891. 
Hunter Stallion. 
Mr. Bowen-Jones reported that 
the District Committees for the ser- 
vices of the Society's three stallions 
were now fully constituted, and "that 
all the arrangements were complete. 
It was agreed to adjourn until the 
