xlviii Annual General Meeting of Governors and Members, 
Election of Auditors. 
Mr. Robert Fisher (Leconfield, Beverley) then moved that th^ best 
thanks of the meeting be tendered to Mr. Jonas M. Webb, Mr. Hubert J. 
Greenwood, and Mr. Newell P. Squarey for their services as Auditors during 
the past year, and that they be re-elected to hold office until the next ensuing 
annual general meeting. He could only hope that next year they would have 
an even more satisfactory Report to make than that presented that day. 
Mr. Frankish, in seconding the motion, said that their Auditors vrere 
very capable men, and they could not do better than re-elect them. 
The resolution was then carried unanimously. 
Election of Council. 
The Chairman stated that the necessary steps had been taken to till the 
vacancies on the Council in the representation of the districts in Group B, the 
Members of which retired by rotation ; and he, as representing the President, 
had to formally report to the Annual General Meeting the names and addresses 
of the Ordinary Members of Council who had been elected by the fifteen 
divisions of that Group, and in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire, in order that the 
meeting might, in accordance with the By-laws, “ take cognisance” of their 
election. 
Tliese names and addresses were as follows : — 
Bankart, S. N., HaJlaton Hall. Uppingham (Rutland). 
De TraHord, Sir H. F., Bart., Hill Crest, Market Harborough (Leicestershire). 
Frank, Howard, 9 Conduit Street (London). 
Hamlyn, Ernest A., Oakdale, Ockley (Surrey). 
Hine, John Henry, Pomphlett Farm, Plymstock, Plymouth (Devonshire). 
Mathews, Ernest, Little Shardiloes, Aniersham (Buckinghamshire). 
May, William A., 3 Wellington Street, Strand (London). 
Middleton, Christopher. Vane Terrace. Darlington (Durham). 
Minton, Thomas S., Montford, Shrewsbury (Shropshire). 
Nocton, William, Langham HaU. Colchester (Essex). 
JPatterson, R. G., Acton Hill, Stafford (Staffordshire). 
Pilkington, Claude M. S., WoUaton, Nottingham (Nottinghamshire). 
Rogers, C. Coltman, Stanage Park, Brampton Bryan (South Wales). 
Smith, Fred., Woodbridge (Suffolk). 
Smith, Henry Herbert, Bowood, Caine (Wiltshire). 
Stanyforth, E. Wilfrid, Kirk Hammerton Hall, York (W. Riding Yorkshire). 
Thornton, John, 7 Princes Street, Hanover Square (London). 
+Tindall, C. W., Waintleet, S.O. (Lincolnshire). 
Turner, Arthur P., The Leen, Pembridge (Herefordshire). 
+ Additional members elected under By-law 83. 
Suggestions of Members. 
In response to the usual inquiry from the Chair as to whether any Governor 
or "Member had any remark to make or suggestion to offer that might be 
referred to the Council for consideration, 
Mr. Ernest A. Hamlyn (Ockley), referring to the remarks of several 
previous speakers as to increasing the membership of the Society, suggested 
the formation of a proper recruiting Committee. They had Committees 
of the Council for various business matters, and he thought that four or 
five men should devote themselves specially to membership. He would there- 
fore suggest for the consideration of the Council at their next monthly meeting 
that a special Committee should be appointed for that purpose. There was one 
other matter on which he would like to say a few words, and that was the 
importation of meat. He believed that 80 to 90 per cent, of the meat sold at 
Deptford and Smithfield markets came from abroad. The result was that, 
although a great many butchers throughout Loudon stated that they sold only 
the primest English meat, he very much doubted if their customers could be 
certain of getting it. He thought that the wives of poor men should be certain 
of obtaining English meat. He would suggest that this matter should also be 
brought up at the next Council meeting, and that they should consider the 
advisability of approaching the Board of Agriculture to request them to take 
measures to compel butchers who sold foreign meat to exhibit a notice to that 
effect. 
