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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MANITOBA VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular general meeting of the Manitoba Veterinary As¬ 
sociation was held at the Grand Union Hotel, on Friday, June 
28th. The members gresent were, C. Taylor, W. A. Dunbar, C. 
Little, J. Loughmen, D. McFadden, Wm. McEachran, M.D., F. 
W. Lipsett, D. Scoulaw, M. Young, F. Torrence and W. J. Hin- 
man. The minutes of the previous meetings' were, read and 
passed. After general business, the following officers were elected 
for the ensuing year, viz: Charles Little, President; D. McFad¬ 
den, Vice-President; W. J. Hinman, Secretary Treasurer—with 
Messrs. McEachran and Loughman members of the Council. A 
discussion then followed in reference to the bill as passed by the 
Local Legislature, when the following resolution was drafted by a 
committee consisting of Messrs. McEachran, Torrence and Young; 
Resolved , That this Association, considering the benefits it has 
conferred on the Province and the assistance it has rendered to 
the Department of Agriculture since its incorporation, regrets the 
recent action of the Local Government in limiting the usefulness 
of the Association by repealing some of the most important clauses 
in the act respecting veterinary surgeons, and that while the Asso¬ 
ciation commends the act as it respects the suppression of con- 
tageous diseases of animals, it cannot but express its disapproval 
of the action taken, more especially as the Association was not al¬ 
lowed an opportunity of being heard on a matter which concerned 
its being. 
This resolution being unanimously carried, the Secretary was 
instructed to send the same to the press for publication. 
F.W. Lipsett, the retiring President, was then elected Honorary 
President of the Association. An adjournment was had until 
evening, when some very interesting and instructive papers were 
read pertaining to the veterinary act. Mr. Hinman informed the 
Association that he had resigned the Government Inspectionship 
for the Province. The meeting adjourned until October 1st, to 
be held in Portage la Prairie. 
The necessity for the inspection of the abattoirs and meat 
