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considered ; and the Committee had 
decided to recommend that it be an 
instruction from the Council to the 
Committee for the selection of judges, 
when appointed, that no member of 
Council be selected as a judge. 
Selection of Judges. 
Mr. Terry said that unfortunately 
he was not present at the Stock Prizes 
Committee on the previous day, and 
he therefore wished to know whether 
the Stewards were unanimous in their 
suggestion that in future no member 
of Council should act as judge at the 
Society’s Country Meetings. 
Mr. Sanday explained that he had 
put this suggestion in the Stewards’ 
Suggestion Book, but he had not in his 
mind anything that had taken place at 
the Cambridge Meeting. The sugges- 
tion had been inserted by him in the 
Stewards’ Book, and other Stewards 
and members of Council who had seen 
it had also added their names. 
Mr. Terry said that his only object 
was information. He thought that if 
they were going to change the prac- 
tice which had existed for a consider- 
able number of years, some reason 
ought to be given why the step should 
be taken. 
Sir Jacob Wilson said that, in his 
capacity as a former Chairman of the 
Stock Prizes Committee, and as Hono- 
rary Director for some years, he had 
persistently protested against members 
of Council being elected as judges at 
their Shows, and he had done so on 
various grounds. In this view he had 
been supported by the Highland and 
many other societies, who did not per- 
mit it. He was perfectly aware that 
by passing such a resolution they would 
be depriving themselves of the ser- 
vices of many eminent judges who 
were members of the Council, but their 
services might be utilised in other and, 
perhaps, more useful ways. Since 
their Showyard had assumed such 
large proportions it became a very 
hard task for the Honorary Director 
to get that assistance which he really 
required in order to have the judging 
carried out upon the first day of the 
Show. Thus, members of Council who 
were now occupied as judges would 
be of more use to the Society as sup- 
plementary Stewards on the first 
morning of the Show ; and it was not 
right that the Honorary Director 
should be compelled to go outside 
when he could utilise the services of 
the gentlemen who were members of 
the Council. He hoped , however, that 
no member of Council who had acted 
as judge at Cambridge would enter- 
tain the idea that there had been any 
reflection upon anyone who had been 
judging there. He should certainly 
support the recommendation of the 
Stock Prizes Committee, because he 
had been a consistent advocate of such 
a policy for the last twenty years. 
Mr. Pidgeon asked whether the 
rule was intended to apply to the 
judges of implements, and was 
answered in the affirmative. 
The report of the Committee was 
then adopted. 
Implement. 
Mr. Rowlandson presented 
various accounts in connection with 
the trials at the Cambridge Meeting, 
which had been passed for payment. 
In view of the fact that eight of the 
twenty-five oil-engines entered for 
competition for the Society’s prizes 
at Cambridge were absent from the 
trials, thus causing the Society great 
and unnecessary expense in prepara- 
tions, the Committee thought that a 
deposit considerably larger in amount 
than at present (1Z.) should be required 
in connection with future trials ; and 
they recommended that the amount 
of deposit payable in respect of the 
haymaking machines and clover- 
making machines to be entered in 
connection with the Darlington Meet- 
ing be fixed at 51. The Committee 
also recommended that, havingregard 
to the great number of exhibits 
entered as “ New Implements,” a non- 
returnable entry fee be charged for 
every exhibit entered as a “ New 
Implement,” and that, in the event of 
any such implement being considered 
by the Stewards and judges not to come 
within the meaning of the regulations 
governing the entry of new imple- 
ments, a fine of 1 1. be imposed upon 
the exhibitor. Resolutions had been 
considered from the Agricultural 
Exhibitors’ Association, and from a 
meeting of exhibitors and their repre- 
sentatives, held on the Showground 
at Cambridge on June 29, respecting 
