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19. An agricultural expert, a practical Kheddot, may be employed upon the 

 agricultural scheme ; his salary and travelling allowance need not exceed Rs. 25 

 per month and he may be allowed about Rs. 200 per annum for expenditure in 

 connection with the purchase of seed, manure, etc. His business would be to teach 

 cultivators, whether Waghers or non-Waghers, better methods of cultivation, manuring, 

 selection of seeds, etc. His appointment would be for five years. On the expiration 

 of that period the question of his retention may be reconsidered in the light of the 

 experience gained from the results of his work in regard to improvement in general 

 agricultural knowledge and skill among the people. 



20. I feel certain the above measures, if adopted, will result in a great 

 advance in the general well-being of the people and will entitle Government to their 

 gratitude to a much greater degree than even the humane and generous policy followed 

 in regard to famine distress has already evoked. The railway will be a great 

 civiliser ; the improvement of Beyt port will bring business, and education will fit 

 people to appreciate and follow a life of industry. They will become more law- 

 abiding than they are ; much of the expenditure on the military force maintained 

 at present it will then be practicable to curtail. The Wagher population which is 

 at present forced to stay at home will be fit to emigrate as skilled wage-earners 

 outside the limits of Okha to Karachi or Bombay or to distant Africa in the wake 

 of the Bhattyas and Memons. 



21. In conclusion I wish to state that I think Okha requires a highly 

 centralised administration. Backward people fail to understand the real significance 

 of a division of Administrative powers. Our chief official's position should be one of 

 equal value, so to say, with that of the Assistant Resident. I have proposed in a 

 separate vernacular memorandum the formation of such an administration. 



I have also submitted memoranda for (1) the improvement of the pilgrim tax; 

 (2) of the customs tariff ; (3) of the fees for quarrying stones ; and (4) I am in 

 correspondence with the Settlement Commissioner on the subject of the existing 

 mismanagement of the temple of Dwarka on the. satisfactory conduct of which so 

 much of our fame and revenue depends and which to the minds of all devout 

 pilgrims is a grave scandal at present. 



V. M. SAMARTH. 



Subha, Amreli Division. 



[NoTE. Most of the recommendations contained in the above note after con- 

 sideration by the higher authorities have been adopted, with varying results, since its 

 submission in the official year 1902-03 A.D. V. M. S.] 



