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Annual General Meeting of Governors and Members , 
Forrest, Robert,, St. Fagan’s, Cardiff, 
Glamorganshire. 
Glover, James W., 12 Jury Street, War- 
wick, Warwickshire. 
Greaves, R. M., Wern, Portmadoc, North 
Wales. 
Harris, Joseph, Brackenhrough Tower, 
Carlisle, Cumberland. 
Hippisley, R. J. Bayntun, Ston Easton 
Park, Bath, Somerset. 
Hobbs, Robert W., Kelmscott, Lechlade, 
Oxfordshire. 
Ingram, Walter F., 2 St. Andrew’s Place, 
Lewes, Sussex. 
Plumptre, H. Fitzwalter, Goodnestone, 
Dover, Kent. 
Reynard, Frederick, Sunderlandwick, 
Driffield, Yorkshire, East Riding. 
Richmond and Gordon, Duke of, K.G., 
Goodwood, Chichester, Sussex. 
Rowell, John, Bury, Huntingdon, 
Huntingdonshire. 
Wilson, Christopher W„ Rigmaden Park, 
Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland. 
Suggestions of Governors and 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 
their consideration, 
Mr. Eldred Walker said that on 
behalf of a large number of cider 
makers he desired to ask the Royal 
Agricultural Society to join in a move- 
ment in which they were all interested 
in the West of England. In that part 
of the country 80 per cent, of the 
farmers were interested in cider and 
the growing of apples, and at the pre- 
sent moment they were suffering under 
great disabilities. One of these was 
the gross “ faking ” of cider by the 
addition of salicylic acid, which was 
deleterious to health. They wanted 
the Board of Agriculture to define 
what cider was, and steps had been 
taken to organise a deputation to the 
Board of Agriculture. He asked, on 
behalf of the West of England cider 
makers, that the Royal Agricultural 
Society would join them in the depu- 
tation. 
Mr. James Watt asked if the 
Council would consider the question 
of railway rates for all those who were 
engaged in connection with the annual 
Shows. He understood that those Mem- 
bers who visited the Show at Derby 
had the privilege of obtaining return 
tickets at a single fare and a quarter 
from various parts of England, but 
those who helped to make the Show 
had no advantage given to them. The 
privilege ought to be extended to 
exhibitors and their assistants. They 
might take their cue from the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 
where the railway companies were 
very good to everybody connected 
with the Show, issuing return tickets 
at single fare ; and he believed the 
English companies would follow suit 
if they were sufficiently pressed. 
The Very Rev. Dr. John Gillespie 
said he had ventured to bring this 
matter of railway facilities before the 
General Meeting of Members at the 
last Park Royal Show a year and 
a half ago, and he had not heard that 
anything had been done in the matter. 
If they were as persistent with the 
English companies as the Highland 
Society had been with the Scottish rail- 
ways, he was sure that the privileges 
would be granted. 
Mr. James Falconer was very glad 
that Mr. Watt and Dr. Gillespie had 
brought this matter up. He hoped the 
Council would give the railway com- 
panies no rest until they granted to 
their Society the same facilities as 
were afforded by the Scottish railways. 
The President pointed out that 
this matter had not been lost sight of, 
and that the Society were working in 
co-operation with the Committee of 
the Federation of Lancashire Agricul- 
tural Societies, of which Mr. Cavendish 
was Chairman. 
Mr. Eldred Walker said he had 
one other suggestion to make, and that 
was that the Press view of the Show- 
yard should take place on the day 
previous to the opening of the Show, in- 
stead of in the week before, as formerly. 
It was impossible for men to come a 
long railway journey to spend an hour 
or two in the Showyard several days 
before the Show, and he was sure they 
would get a larger attendance if the 
visit were fixed for the day before the 
Show actually opened. 
Mr. Robert H. Elliot suggested 
that the Society should impress upon 
the Government the necessity for hav- 
ing one seed-testing station in Great 
Britain. This matter had been brought 
before the Government some years ago, 
when a Departmental Committee had 
been appointed, but no action had 
been taken in the matter. He might 
say that even in Ireland they had a 
