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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
abstracts from tbe proceebings of tbe Council. 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1905. 
LORD MIDDLETON (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Show of 1905. 
The Council resumed the discussion 
as special business of the question of 
holding the Society’s Show in 1905, 
and resolved itself into Committee for 
the purpose of considering the results 
of the appeal made to Members of the 
Society for further financial support 
in conneetion with the following 
resolution passed by the Council on 
December 7, 1904 : — 
“That a final decision as to the Show 
in 1905 he postponed until a meeting of 
the Council to be held in the second 
week of January, 1905, in the hope that 
further sums by way of subscriptions 
or guarantees will meanwhile be forth- 
coming from Members, exhibitors, and 
others, which in the opinion of the 
Council will be sufficient to warrant 
the Society in organising a Show for 
1905 without further loss to its general 
funds.” 
The President announced that up 
to the present time promises of financial 
support to the Show of 1905, if held, 
had been received from 684 persons to 
a total amount of 5,782 ?., besides con- 
ditional subscriptions and guarantees 
from forty-six other Members amount- 
ing to 603Z. The figure which the 
Council had originally mentioned as 
the amount of the Show Fund that 
they desired to raise was 10,000?., and 
it was for the Council now to consider 
on the figures he had given them 
whether they could undertake the 
organisation of a Show this, year with 
the probability of being able to avoid 
a further loss to the Society’s general 
funds. A proposal had just been 
received from the Great Western 
Railway Company with regard to 
the Show, which the Council would 
doubtless wish to have before them 
in considering the general question, 
and he would ask Lord Cawdor if he 
would kindly explain it to the Council. 
Earl Cawdor said that he was 
authorised by the Great Western 
Railway Company to state that if it 
was felt that the 10,000?. originally 
mentioned by the Council should be 
guaranteed before the Council came 
to a decision, his Company would be 
ready to guarantee the balance of 
4,000?. of the 10,000?. on receiving in 
exchange for any money which it 
might be called upon after the Show 
to pay under such guarantee an 
equivalent amount of shares in Park 
Royal, Limited* at a price to be 
agreed upon or fixed by arbitration. 
This was purely a business offer to be 
dealt with on business lines. He 
hoped the Council would clearly 
understand that he did not wish the 
suggestion he had made to run counter 
to any proposal of the Council to hold 
a Show on their own account. The 
offer of the Great Western Railway 
Company need only be considered in 
the event of the Council coming to 
the conclusion that they could not 
hold a Show on their own resources, 
and desiring to find some means by 
which such Show could be held. His 
Company’s anxiety was to get a Show 
held, and only in the case of the 
Council saying that they could not 
hold a Show by themselves would the 
Company’s offer come forward at all. 
Having laid the offer before the 
Council, he should not, of course, vote 
on the question of its acceptance or 
otherwise. 
The President having read letters 
from Lord Derby and Mr. Albert Pell 
