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he and the Board were doing everything they could to meet the wishes of the 
livestock owners of the country. 
Mr. Ernest Mathews, Chairman of the Milking Machine Trials Sub- 
committee, reported the arrangements which had been made for carrying out 
the trials at Grange Hill, Bishop Auckland, commencing on Friday, April 18. 
The Seal of the Society was affixed to a document authorising the payment 
direct to the Society’s bankers of interest on investments. 
The Council adjourned until Wednesday, May 7, 1913. 
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1913. 
At a Monthly Council held at 16 Bedford Square, London, W.C., the Earl of 
Northbrook (President) in the Chair : — 
Present: — Trustees . — -Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, Bart., Lord Moreton, Sir John 
H. Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. Adeane, Sir Kichard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. Percy 
Crutchley, Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, 
Bart., C.Y.O. 
Other Members of the Council. — Mr. T. L. Aveling, Capt. Clive Behrens, 
Mr. Henry Dent Brocklehurst, Maj.-Gen. J. F. Brocklehurst, C.V.O., C.B., Mr. 
Davis Brown, Mr. Richardson Carr, the Hon. J. E. Cross, Mr. John Evens, Mr. 
James Falconer, Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. W. T. Game, Mr. James W. Glover, 
Mr. Joseph Harris, Lord Hastings, Sir Arthur G. Hazlerigg, Bart., Mr. Arthur 
Hiscock, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. W. J. Hosken, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Sir Charles 
V. Knightley, Bart., Mr. G. R. Lane-Fox, M.P., Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest 
Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. John Myatt, Mr. H. Overman, 
Mr. R. G. Patterson, Mr. C. M. S Pilkington, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. W. A. 
Prout, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. Coltman Rogers, Mr. H. H. Smith, Mr. E. W. 
Stanyforth, Lord Strachie, Mr. C. W. Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, and Mr. Louis 
C. Wrigley. 
Governors. — Mr. W. W. Chapman and Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P. 
The following Members of the Bristol Local Committee were also present : — 
The Lord Mayor of Bristol, Sir Frank Wills, Alderman C. A. Hayes, Mr. Sidney 
Humphries, Mr. Samuel Kidner, Mr. H. L. Riseley, and Mr. Eldred G. F. 
The President, in opening the meeting, read two letters which had been 
received in answer to the votes of condolence passed by the Council at their 
last meeting on the death of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes . 
Home Office, Whitehall, 
April 16th, 1913. 
SIR, -I am directed by the Secretary of State to inform you that the message of 
condolence from the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England on the 
death of his late Majesty the King of the Hellenes has been laid before His Majesty, 
who was pleased to receive the same very graciously. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
(Signed) A. J. EAGLESTON. 
THOMAS McRow, Esq., 
Secretary, Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
Marlborough House, 
April 4th, 1913. 
Sir —Your letter of the 3rd instant, recording as it does the sorrow of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England for the death of the King of Greece, and their 
deep symoathy with Queen Alexandra in the melancholy circumstances of Her 
Majesty’s beloved brother’s death, has been submitted to Her Majesty. 
M I write now by the Queen’s Command to ask you to convey to the President of 
the Society and request him to let it be known to all its Members, how very much 
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