The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-22
Royal Hawaiian Agricultural So
cIety.

The annual meeting of this society was
held last evening at the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel. The Hon. A S. Cleghorn, Vice
President, was unfortunately absent,
owing to indisposition, and the Hon. L.
McCully presided. The attendance was
not large. The Secretary (Mr. J. S.
Webb read the following report
Honolulu, October 81, 1886.
On taking office the Board of Manage
ment found the society in debt to the
Treasurer for balance of cost of removing
and re-erecting the large hall, and also
under obligations to many exhibitors for
medals which had been awarded to them.
The whole of the grant made to TIE society
by the Legislature in 1884 had necessarily
been applied to the payment of the debt
incurred in that year for buildings at
Kapiolani Park, and no means of defray
ing the expenses of a Fair were left except
the subscriptions of members which, at the
most sanguine computation, would be
wholly inadequate for the purpose, the
charging of entrance fees to the public
having been virtually abandoned when the
Fair was transferred to the Park, where
until the sOciety's ground is fenced in
there is no way of collecting them. Under
these circumstances the members OF the
Board were unanimously of opinion that
it was undesirable to hold an agriculture
fair during the present year. 1t was at
one time intended that horticulture show
should be held during the present month
in the hall on King street, but when ar
rangements to carry this project out were
initiated it was found that sufficiently
long notice to intending exhibitors had not
been given, and that the show was in con-
sequence not likely to be a successful one.
The Treasurer and Secretary were in
structed to ask the Government to place
on the estimates a grant in aid of the so
ciety They presented a memorial to the
late Minister of the Interior, Major Gu
lick, who expressed himself strongly in
favor of it, a change of Administration
Immediately following, the matter was
brought before the new Minister, Hon.
Mr. Gibson, who entertained the proposal
very cordially and on whose motion the
Assembly granted a subsidy of 81 900 in
aid of the society. With this assistance
the successors of the present Board of
Management will be in position to carry
/ out the objects of the society in a modest
way but it must depend very greatly upon
| the support awarded to them by the public
! in the way of subscriptions whether they
/ can offer prizes to exhibitors in the same
| liberal manner as in the past.
/ Under the circumstances, it has not been
( deemed proper TO collect the subscriptions
| OF members for the past year. The debt
/ due to the Treasurer for cost of removing
/ the hall has been partially betrayed by
1 voluntary subscriptions of members and
uc1-members, who take an interest in hOr-
..c,Glure Respectfully submitted.
! Tha 80 'rta~v addeH thai the place in
! King fDa.-t .ou'5 sec ~ e sGi'l able -
/ holding show ar sIugi ,-AP2.3.s,'. -..-- 80
+ that the thanks OF the society were due
/ 10 Mr.. 4. jaeger for his assiduity ia re-
/ gard 70 il. Though he did not remem-
+ Der such "a thing since he had been here.
( he hoped chat a really good horticultural
T show would soon be held II was use-
. less u say to the gentlemen present
anything about the value Of such a
society. especially In . community such
as tbis, where people were always dis
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