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Monthly Council , November 1, 1905. 
Though many of them did not find 
themselves in agreement with the 
policy of a permanent Showyard, de- 
cided upon by the old Council in 1901, 
yet he, for' one, fully recognised the 
generosity of those who then came 
forward to the help of the Society by 
subscribing large sums of money to 
enable Park Royal to be acquired. It 
might possibly be that those of their 
colleagues who were Directors of Park 
Royal, Limited, would like an oppor- 
tunity of considering the matter from 
their special point of view before they 
accepted the instructions which the 
Special Committee recommended the 
Council to give them, to offer the pro- 
perty to the original vendors. He 
quite felt that this was not a matter 
to be disposed of in a hurry, especially 
as it involved such a large sum of 
money, So far as the Special Com- 
mittee was concerned, their views had 
been unmistakably expressed, and it 
was for the Council to say whether 
they would now endorse those views 
to the extent of ordering them to be 
carried into effect, or would await a 
report (as in the case of the Special 
Committee’s other recommendations) 
from the particular Standing Com- 
mittee — in this case the Board of Park 
Royal, Limited — which was specially 
concerned with the administration 
of this department of the Society’s 
operations. 
Mr. Harrison having seconded the 
adoption of this recommendation, 
Mr. Wheeler thought the Council 
should have some statement as to the 
expense of holding this site, and also 
as to the revenue they might make 
out of it for other purposes. He 
thought that the Directors of Park 
Royal might be asked to bring up a 
report on this matter at the next 
meeting of the Council. 
Mr. Harrison said the charge that 
Park Royal would be to the Society 
in case the land were retained as a 
speculation had been calculated at 
anything from 1,300Z. to 1,700Z. per 
annum. The Special Committee, in 
considering this, felt that in the pre- 
sent financial position of the Society 
it could not recommend the Society 
to retain possession of Park Royal for 
the six years which would elapse be- 
fore the vendor’s right of pre-emption 
expired. A capital expenditure of 
more than l,000l. a year for the reten- 
tion of Park Royal was considerably 
more than the Special Committee felt 
justified in recommending to the 
Council. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote said he did 
not think that the Directors of Park 
Royal had any further information to 
give than had already been laid before 
the Council. The Directors had taken 
steps to make the best they could of 
the place, and with regard to letting 
the land, a football club had hired 
some of it, and he did not think the 
Royal Agricultural Society were in a 
position to develop the ground in any 
other way. He thought that the site 
would eventually have turned out 
advantageously to the Society as a 
permanent Showground, but if the 
Council were determined not to use it 
for this purpose, he did not see any 
alternative but to sell it. e 
Mr. Crutchley quite agreed with 
what had fallen from Sir Nigel Kings- 
cote. He did not see what advantage 
there could be in the Directors of Park 
Royal expressing their views further 
on the subject now before them. If 
the Council had decided once for all 
not to go back to Park Royal to hold 
its Shows there, he thought the best 
course, under the circumstances, would 
be to realise the estate, and that it 
was only waste of time for the 
Council to postpone dealing with the 
question. 
Mr. Stanyforth said that he could 
not help feeling that in parting from 
this land at the present moment they 
were parting from property which in 
future years would become very 
valuable. He quite appreciated the 
arguments that had been used to the 
contrary. On the other hand, he 
did not think they could go on with 
the Shows in the provinces year after 
year. They had a Showground for 
next year, and they might secure one 
for a year or two longer. It was a 
question, however, if they could 
continue these migratory Shows. If 
not, they might ultimately have to 
come back to London, and if they 
parted with Park Royal now, they 
were placed in the position of not 
having any Showground for the future. 
Could not a portion of the Park Royal 
