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intimated his intention of reading a paper at the next 
Meeting on : — 
An improved three-roller Sugar Mill, 
illustrated by drawings and a working model. 
The Meeting then terminated. 
Meeting held on 8th March.—?. H. Nind, M.A., 
President, in the chair. 
There were 21 members present. 
Elections. — Member : Dr. Texeira. 
Associates : J. A. Main, H. S. Lansdell. 
The President said that before proceeding with the 
ordinary business he wished to say a few words. Absence 
from the colony had prevented his attending the Meetings 
which followed the election of Officers, and this was the 
first opportunity he had had of tendering his thanks to 
the Society for the honour it had done him in electing 
him as President for the current year. He accepted the 
Office not as an honorary sinecure but as a position 
surrounded with great responsibilities. He considered 
that, although the duties of Officers were laid down in 
the Bye-Laws, these duties should not be read in the light 
of a generation and a half ago, nor twenty or even five 
years ago, but by the light of the present year 1888. It 
seemed to him that the founders of the Society had based 
it upon broad lines, and it was a happy thought of theirs 
to follow the progress of the colony at large, and not 
any dominant interest in it. In Section A of the Bye- 
Laws they had given agriculture the first place ; certainly 
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