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was legally due to him as regards re- 
muneration. In view of Sir Ernest 
Clarke’s past services to the Society 
during the eighteen and a half years 
that he had been its Secretary, the 
Finance Committee unanimously re- 
commended to the Council (1) that 
his tenure of office as Secretary of the 
Society should be considered as ter- 
minated at Christmas next ; (2) that 
he should receive at that time, in lieu 
of further salary, the sum of 1,000Z. in 
full discharge of all pecuniary claims 
upon the Society ; (3) that he be 
permitted to occupy his present rooms 
at Harewood House until not later 
than March 25 next, it being under- 
stood by him that if rendered necessary 
by the previous sale or letting of the 
house, he would have to vacate such 
apartments at an earlier date when 
required. With regard to all the 
other officials of the Society at 
Hanover Square and Park Royal, the 
Committee recommended that notice 
be given to each officer and clerk by 
the President immediately after the 
November Council (1) that his en- 
gagement by the Society would 
terminate on March 25 next (Lady 
Day, 1906) ; (2) that the Council 
reserved the power — acting through 
their Finance Committee — to dispense 
(with or without request) with his 
further attendance at any date prior 
to March 25, and would take into 
consideration the circumstances of any 
new appointment which he might 
meanwhile obtain in deciding as to 
the date when his salary from the 
Society should terminate. 
In order that the selection of the 
new Secretary might be expedited, 
the Committee drew up, on October 
17, a form of application for the post, 
and ordered the appointment to be 
advertised forthwith, the forms of 
application to be returnable not later 
than Tuesday, October 31. The Com- 
mittee recommended that the question 
of the appointment by the Council of 
an Assistant to the Secretary be 
reserved until the new Secretary had 
been selected and was in office. A 
total of 481 forms of application for 
the post of Secretary had since been 
issued to applicants, and 230 actual 
applications had been received. The 
Committee proposed to hold a further 
meeting after the rising of the Council 
to go through these applications and 
to make a selection of a small number 
of candidates therefrom to be person- 
ally interviewed by the Committee, 
with a view to the final appointment 
of the new Secretary being made at 
the next Council meeting on Decem- 
ber 6. 
Show of 1906. 
Sir Gilbert Greenall, in pre- 
senting a further report from the 
Special Committee appointed on 
August 1 last, said that in paragraph 
8 of that Committee’s report of 
September 21, 1905, it was recom- 
mended that a Show be held by the 
Society in 1906 in the provinces if a 
suitable site could be obtained and 
financial arrangements made. As 
notified direct to the Council in the 
letter from the Mayor of Derby, dated 
September 29, an invitation had now 
been received from that borough ; and 
a Sub- Committee consisting of Mr. 
Carr, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Crutchley 
had visited the site on Friday, October 
13. The Sub-Committee’s report in- 
dicated that a good and convenient 
site was available at Derby, that the 
Mayor and Corporation were willing 
to carry out the Society’s customary 
requirements, and that the Derbyshire 
Agricultural Society was ready to 
suspend its own Show for 1906 if 
the Royal Show should be held at 
Derby. 
The Sub-Committee recommended 
“ that the invitation from Derby be 
accepted if the Council decide to hold 
a show in 1906,” and in that recom- 
mendation the Special Committee 
concurred. The Committee had the 
assurance of one of their number that 
in the event of the Society holding a 
Show at Derby in 1906, and such 
Show should (under the new arrange- 
ments as to administration, &c., which 
had already been sanctioned in 
principle by the Council) involve a 
loss to the Society’s general funds, he 
would be prepared to make such loss 
good; and the Committee recommended 
that this generous offer be accepted. 
The Committee thought that the Show 
of 1906 should be held at the usual 
time, viz., in the week after Ascot, 
and that it should be a four days’ 
