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I don't know whether we can promise very much 
help as a Society ourselves, except to act as an agency 
for collecting and registering the different exhibits that 
may be sont in to us, and forwarding them to Messrs. 
Pickford and Black's line of steamers. That firm 
liaving kindly guaranteed to convey them free of 
charge, there would really be practically very little 
expense to exhibitors in sending in their exhibits. 
The exhibition, moreover, mil be held at a time of 
the year when it will be possible to get quite a number 
of specimens of sugar and other products of our colony 
wdiich would make an attractive show if we could 
advertise it sufficiently." Mr. Hill then introduced 
Mr. Pickford to the meeting. 
Mr. Pickford, in the course of his speech, said : " We 
have had during the last two years in connection with 
our exhibition at Halifax, exhibits from Tobago and 
Trinidad. Last year we had some from Jamaica, 
Trinidad, St. Kitts, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, 
Grenada, and St. Vincent. But Demerara, Barbados, 
and Jamaica did not contribute. This year, however, 
we hope to get them to send exhibits to the Toronto 
exhibition, which is very much larger than that at 
Halifax. In fact, during one day last year the attend- 
ance was over 90,000. It lasts ten days, and when it 
is over we propose to • * express ' the goods to Halifax 
and show them there also. At Halifax last 3'ear the 
exhibits IVom the West Indies attracted a great deal of 
attention and also, 1 believe, did a great deal of good. 
What we want tliis year is a very big show which will 
indicate exactly what the West Indies can do. We 
want, in addition to the products of this country which 
