220 TlMEHRI. 
Mr. Hawtayne said that this was such an excellent 
suggestion that he felt hampered by the rules of the 
Society which prevented a motion being discussed at the 
same meeting that it is proposed. If Mr. Jones would 
frame a motion by which the Society could bring its in- 
fluence to bear on the Government without delay, it 
would be very desirable, and he would be glad to move 
that all rules which prevented motions being proposed 
and carried at one and the same meeting should be sus- 
pended in this particular case. 
The President said that there was no doubt that this 
question might be an exceedingly valuable one to the 
country, and when we see that it is being taken up by 
planters and Government officers, all the members of the 
Society should sympathise with it. Considering that the 
Combined Court meets on the Sth of May and that there 
cannot be another meeting of the Society before that 
date, there was reasonable cause for suspending the 
Rules in this particular case, although he did not approve 
of such measures in anything but urgent cases. 
Mr. Hawtayne then proposed, and Mr. Drysdale 
seconded : — 
That the Rules which require Notice of Motion be suspended for 
the purpose of allowing the motion of Mr. Jones to be passed at the 
present Meeting. 
The motion having been carried, 
Captain E. T. White gave an account of the proposals 
of the Company which were embodied in the petition to 
the Combined Court. 
Mr. G. Garnett thought that provision should be made 
for bringing fruit from the Pomeroon. 
Mr. N. D. Davis remarked that the Banana Trade of 
