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supported the motion, the last-named expressing his 
pleasure at seeing a growing desire to promote the minor 
industries of the colony He suggested that the Agri- 
cultural Committee, in making experiments in the limes, 
should also dire6l their attention to the growth of 
oranges, the soil and climate of this colony being, in his 
opinion, pre-eminently suitable for their cultivation. 
The motion having been put to the meeting, was 
carried unanimously. 
Replying to the Rev. J. Foreman's questions nos. 1 
and 2, notified at the previous meeting, the Secretary 
said that special circulars had been issued by him to all 
subscribers to Timehri y who were in arrears of sub- 
scription, requesting immediate payment to the Honorary 
Treasurer. The latter explained that as a result of these 
circulars he had received, since the 5th May, $223 48 of 
the amount due for arrears of subscription, which then 
amounted to $341 46. 
In reply to Mr. Foreman's third question, notified at 
the last meeting, Mr. Kelly said the Agricultural Com- 
mittee had pra6lically done nothing up to the present in 
regard to expending the $2,000 placed at their disposal 
by the Society for experimental cultivation of fibres and 
other produfts. As the members were aware, the 
proposal of the Committee in regard to working an 
experimental se6lion at the Botanic Gardens was not 
favourably entertained by the Government Botanist nor 
by the Government itself. And when the Committee 
contemplated taking advantage of Mr. Jones's offer of a 
piece of well drained land at Pin. Houston for the pur- 
pose of making experiments in the growth of fibres, 
they were disheartened by a paragraph in the report on 
