XXXVI 
Monthly Council , November 5 , 1913 . 
Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. C. Rogers, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. 
E. W. Stanyforth, Lord Strachie, Mr. C. W. Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, Mr. E. 
V. Y. Wheeler, and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
Governors. — Mr. W. W. Chapman and Mr. Harold Swithinbanlc. 
The following Members of the Shrewsbury Local Committee were also 
present : — The Earl of Powis, Mr. B. Blower, Mr. H. C. Clarke, Mr. Beville 
Stanier, M.P., Major C. R. B. Wingfield, and Mr. E. Clothier (Local Secretary). 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday, July 
30, 1913, were taken as read and approved. 
The President said he knew the Council would learn with very great regret 
of the loss, since their last meeting, of one of their colleagues by the death of 
Mr, Henry Herbert Smith, of *Bowood, Caine, who died on October 19. Mr. 
Smith had been a Member of the Society since 1874, and from 1905 till his 
death had represented the Division of Wiltshire on the Council. 
Mr. Adeane said the Council would remember that at their meeting in July 
the question of giving rewards for skilled agricultural labour and long service 
had been referred to the Finance Committee for their consideration, and they 
had been asked to report at the meeting that day. It was obvious that it was 
impossible to deal with the whole country at one time, and therefore the 
Finance Committee recommended that the Society should confine its efforts to 
the area visited by the Show, with the exception that some provision should be 
made for those parts of England which had not been visited by the Society for 
a great number of years. They very much hoped that the local societies, of 
which there was a great number scattered about England, would co-operate 
with the Royal Agricultural Society for the purpose, and, if they would do so, 
they would be exceedingly useful as a means of distributing the awards. The 
Finance Committee recommended that bronze medals and certificates should be 
given to the winners in the local competitions, and they further recommended 
that the holders of these medals and certificates should be qualified to compete 
for a championship which would be given by the Royal, such a championship 
to consist, he hoped, of a substantial money prize and a silver medal. With 
regard to management they recommended that the matter should be handed 
over to the Farm Prizes Committee, who already operated in the area with 
which they proposed to deal, and that that Committee should be given power 
by the Council to form a sub-committee and co-opt local Members to that body. 
He thought they would secure two things in that manner ; so far as the' Society 
was concerned they would secure continuity of management, and so far as the 
locality was concerned they would secure full representation. He hoped the 
Council would adopt the scheme in general and leave the details to be threshed 
out by the Committee. 
Mr. Adeane then read the detailed recommendations of the Finance 
Committee, which were unanimously approved after observations by Mr. 
Mansell, Mr. Pilkington, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P., 
Mr. Falconer, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mr. Hugdale. The President 
stated that the initiation of this proposal was due to Mr. Adeane, and he was 
sure the Council would like to express their thanks to him for the attention 
he had given to it, and the great amount of trouble he had taken in the 
matter. (Hear, hear.) 
On the motion of Sir John Thorold, seconded by Mr. Adeane, Lord 
Rothschild was unanimously elected a Vice-President of the Society in the room 
of the late Sir Richard Cooper. Mr. Adeane said he did not think the 
Council could possibly find any man who had done more for and earned better 
the honour now bestowed upon him. When he (Mr. Adeane) had occupied the 
unenviable position of Chairman of the Park Royal Company, in liquidation, and 
when he had to find some one who would feed that white elephant, Harewood 
House, the times were critical, and he remembered one particular moment, not 
known to the Council, when they were in great straits, and, if it had not been for 
Lord Rothschild’s assistance on that occasion, the Society would have been in a 
very difficult position. He was very glad to be able to make acknowledgment of 
