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tary in charge of Tent No. i. The Committee also owe 
acknowledgments to the Press for many free notices of 
the Show, and to many persons, in the country distri6lb 
more particularly, for the interest which they aroused 
among the peasant classes particularly. In certain dis- 
tri6ls much good work was done in this respe61: ; but the 
Committee would call upon a wider circle of promoters, 
all over the colony who could, with but little trouble, 
exert a stimulating effe6l on the more ignorant members 
of the community. Seeing the good work which is being 
accomplished by these exhibitions, the Committee would 
urge upon the Society the desirability of an early appli- 
cation to the Government for the usual grant of $500 
towards the prize-list of the Show of 1899, Reports on 
the various classes are being furnished by the Judges and 
will be laid over later for the information of the Society," 
Mr. T. S. Hargreaves brought forward his motion for 
the training of young men in Agriculture and Horticul- 
ture at the Botanic Gardens. 
He said that in giving notice of this motion he did not 
do so with the intention of telling the Society anything 
about technical education in agriculture, but simply to 
promote discussion with a view that something might be 
done to ultimately develop, what had so often been brought 
before the Society, viz., an Agricultural College. At 
present, with the colony so much depressed, they could 
hardly expea the Government to start any new expen- 
sive institution, but it was just possible that something 
like what he believed was done at Kew, might be com- 
menced. Of course the question was one for the Gov- 
ernment rather than for the Society, and he therefore 
put it forward simply as a suggestion to the Government. 
He considered the Colony to be absolutely wanting in 
technical education of any kind, and even that of an 
ordinary mechanic was not to be obtained. Beyond the 
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