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of his motion being fully explained in the preamble. The 
appointment of District Sub-Committees, he thought, 
would be beneficial, affording country members who were 
unable to attend the Society's meetings an opportunity 
of promulgating their ideas. 
Mr. Conyers seconded the motion for the sake of dis- 
cussion. 
The Secretary did not see the necessity for appointing 
such Sub-Committees, as at the eleftion of the Agri- 
cultural Committee at the Anniversary Meeting in 
December, care was taken to sele6l members residing in 
all parts of the colony, so as to ensure representatives 
in outlying distrifts to a6l in the manner suggested by 
Mr. Legge. 
Mr. Jones opposed the motion on the ground of the 
difficulty of getting men together in the country districts 
to discuss business matters, his experience being that it 
was difficult even to get them together for social meet- 
ings. If members had anything interesting to report, it 
was an easy matter for them to direft the attention of the 
Society to the subjeft by means of a letter. 
The Rev. John Foreman proposed as an amendment 
that the resolution be referred as a recommendation to 
the Agricultural Committee ; but the amendment was not 
seconded. 
Mr. Darnell Davis opposed the motion on somewhat 
similar grounds to those of Mr. Jones, and deprecated 
the absence of the agricultural element from most of the 
Society's meetings. 
Mr. Legge having replied, the motion was put to the 
meeting and lost. 
The Rev. John Foreman moved the resolution, of which 
