Monthly  Council , November  2,  1910.  xxxiii 
say  one  word  for  the  Lord  Mayor’s  Secretary,  Mr.  Percy  Corkhill,  who 
had  done  so  much  to  make  matters  run  smoothly,  and  for  the  Chairman 
of  the  Parks  Committees  and  others  connected  with  the  Playground  on 
which  the  Show  was  held.  They  all  deserved  the  Council’s  most  hearty 
thanks,  which  he  was  sure  they  would  receive.  Their  thanks  were  also 
due  to  the  poorer  inhabitants  of  the  Wavertree  district  for  the  very  enthusiastic 
way  in  which  they  had  supported  the  Show  and  had  given  up  what  was  to 
them  a very  great  place — the  only  playground  in  that  neighbourhood. 
The  Lord  Mayor  of  Liverpool  having  thanked  Mr.  Adeane  and  the 
President  for  the  very  kind  way  in  which  they  had  alluded  to  himself  and 
to  the  citizens  of  Liverpool,  the  Report  of  the  Finance  Committee  was  received 
and  adopted. 
The  Secretary  read  a letter  from  the  Lord  Mayor  of  Bristol  containing 
a resolution  which  had  been  submitted  to  a public  meeting  of  citizens  held 
at  the  Guildhall  on  October  19,  1910,  and  unanimously  carried  in  the  following 
terms: — “That  a cordial  invitation  be  extended  to  the  Royal  Agricultural 
Society  to  hold  their  Annual  Show  at  Bristol  in  the  year  1913.”  The  site 
proposed  to  be  offered  would  be  on  the  Clifton  and  Durdham  Downs,  which 
was  the  same  ground  as  that  occupied  by  the  Society  on  the  occasion  of  the 
Show  in  1878. 
The  Duke  of  Devonshire  was  sure  it  would  be  the  wish  of  the  Council 
that  the  very  kind  and  cordial  invitation  so  spontaneously  offered  by  the  Lord 
Mayor  and  inhabitants  of  Bristol  should  be  accepted.  He  was  certain  they 
would  all,  throughout  the  country,  be  delighted  to  accept  the  invitation 
extended  to  them.  The  enthusiasm  of  the  people  of  Bristol  was  well  known, 
and  the  Society  would  be  doing  right  to  hold  its  Show  there.  He  had  great 
pleasure  in  moving  that  the  invitation  be  accepted. 
Sir  John  Thorold  was  pleased  to  recollect  having  been  at  the  Show  on 
Clifton  Downs  some  years  ago.  He  did  not  think  they  could  have  a better 
showground,  and  they  could  not  do  better  than  accept  the  invitation  which 
had  been  so  heartily  extended  by  the  City  of  Bristol.  It  afforded  him  much 
pleasure  to  second  the  motion,  which  was  then  unanimously  adopted  by  the 
Council. 
On  the  motion  of  the  Earl  of  Northbrook,  seconded  by  Mr.  Rea,  it 
was  unanimously  resolved  : — 
“That,  for  the  protection  of  our  herds  and  flocks,  and  in  order  to  prevent  the 
spreading  of  foot-und-mouth  disease  and  anthrax,  it  is  of  the  greatest  importance 
that  all  ships,  wagons,  and  other  vehicles  which  have  carried  foreign  skins, 
wool,  or  other  subs  ance  likely  to  bring  or  spread  disease,  should  be  thoroughly 
disinfected  before  being  used  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  cake,  feeding  stuffs,  or 
niaierials  used  in  the  manufacture  of  feeding  stufl'B. 
“Further,  that  it  is  aesirable.  if  possible,  to  prevent  the  carriage  of  skins,  wool, 
Ac.,  on  the  same  ships  as  cake  and  other  feeding  materials:  or.  if  they  must  be 
carried  on  the  same  boats,  that  adequate  precautions  should  be  taken  to  prevent 
the  contamination  of  feeding  stuffs.” 
Copies  of  this  resolution  were  ordered  to  be  forwarded  to  the  Board  of 
Agriculture  anti  the  Board  of  Trade. 
A report  from  the  Calf  (Tuberculosis  Experiment)  Committee  was  received 
and  adopted.  Lord  Northbrook,  in  presenting  this  Report,  said  he  thought 
he  was  right  in  saying  that  at  the  meeting  of  the  Council  held  in  the  Liverpool 
Showyard,  thanks  were  expressed  to  Lord  Rothschild  for  his  generosity  in  this 
matter.  Without  the  co-operation  and  assistance  they  had  received  from 
Lord  Rothschild,  through  Mr.  Richardson  Carr,  in  providing  calves  for  the 
experiments,  the  work  of  the  Committee  would  have  been  of  a much  more 
difficult  nature  at  the  present  time.  He  was  sure  that  the  members  of  the 
Committee  and  the  Council  were  very  much  obliged  to  Lord  Rothschild  for  the 
assistance  he  had  given. 
Authority  was  given  for  the  sealing  of  the  agreement  with  the  Corporation 
of  Doncaster  in  connection  with  the  holding  of  the  Society’s  Show  of  1912  in 
that  town. 
