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(ft) The Officials of the General Post Office for the efficient postal and telegraphic 
arrangements. 
(c) The Newcastle Brigade of the St. John’s Ambulance Association for the efficient 
Ambulance arrangements, under the charge of Colonel Gibbon. 
(d) The Officials of Messrs. Barclay & Company’s Bank, Newcastle, for the efficient 
assistance rendered by them. 
(e) Messrs. Merryweather & Sons, Ltd., for the provision of Fire Engines, and for 
the efficient arrangements in connection with the Fire Station in the 
Showyard. 
(/) Messrs. Robson & Sons, Ltd., for the loan of Furniture and Decorations for the 
Royal Pavilion. 
( g ) Messrs, ffm. Fell & Co. (Hexham), Ltd., for providing the Floral Decorations 
near the Pavilions, &c. 
(ft) Messrs. Marshall, Sons & Co., Ltd., for the loan of a Steam Engine for 
supplying Motive Power to the Dairy. 
(0 Mr. G. Elphick, M.R.C.V.S., for services rendered by him as one of the 
Veterinary Inspectors, as a Judge of Horse-shoeing, and for assistance in 
other matters. 
0) Mr. Stephen Fairbairn, for the arrangements made by him in connection with 
the Trials of Manure Distributors. 
(ft) The Great Northern and North British Railway Companies for the facilities 
afforded by them in connection with the Show.” 
(A special vote of thanks to the North Eastern Railway Company was 
passed at the General Meeting held in the Showyard.) 
Letters of thanks were also ordered to be addressed to various individuals 
and firms for assistance rendered in connection with the Show. 
On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. Frederick Reynard, 
cordial votes of thanks were passed to Mr. George Marshall, to the Royal 
English Arboricultural Society, and to all the Exhibitors in the Agricultural 
Education, and Forestry Exhibition, which proved so successful and interesting 
a feature in the Showyard. 
On the motion of Sir Gilbert Greenall, seconded by Sir Richard 
Cooper, a letter was ordered to be addressed to the Chief Commissioner of 
Metropolitan Police conveying the appreciation of the Council of the very 
efficient services rendered by the Detachment of Metropolitan Police on duty 
in the Showyard. Letters of thanks were also ordered to be sent to the Chief 
Constables of the Newcastle City Police and the Northumberland County 
Police. 
The Secretary laid upon the table a formal certificate by Mr. John Malcolm, 
F.R.C.V.S. (the Society’s Chief Veterinary Inspector), to the effect that no case 
or suspected case of contagious or infectious disease had occurred amongst the 
animals exhibited at the Show. 
A telegram was read from Count Esterhazy expressing the thanks of the 
party of Hungarian Agriculturists for the arrangements made in connection 
with their visit to this country. 
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1908. 
At a Monthly Council, held on Wednesday, July 29, 1908, at 16 Bedford 
Square, W.C., the Duke of Devonshire (President) in the Chair : — 
Present : — Trustees. — Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, Lord Moreton, Sir John H. 
Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Percy Crutchley, Mr. J. 
Marshall Dugdale, the Earl of Jersey, G.C.B., the Earl of Northbrook. 
Other Members of the Council. — Mr. T. L. Aveling, Mr. S. N. Bankart, 
Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. Henry Dudding, 
Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Mr. Joseph Harris, 
Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, 
Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. R. G. Patterson, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. F. Reynard, 
Mr. E. W. Shackle, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. H. H. Smith, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, 
Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. H. Tallent, Mr. George Taylor, Mr. John Thornton, and 
Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
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