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agricultural industries of the Colony. The powers and duties of the 

 Board, as laid down in that Ordinance and subsequent amending 

 Ordinances are to advise the Director of the Department of Agriculture 

 as to all matters and questions submitted to them by th Department of 

 Agriculture and to appropriate the funds of the Board for the purpose of 

 making experiments and research, and collecting such information as 

 they may think important for the purposes of agriculture, including in 

 such purposes the introduction of any new agricultural industry and 

 methods for dealing with insect, fungoid and other pests and for the 

 collection and distribution of agricultural statistics. Provision is made 

 for the establishment of an Agricultural Fund to be administered by the 

 ]ioard ; and the Board is empowered to appoint a Secretary and such 

 officers as it may require and to pay them out of the Agricultural Fund 

 such salaries as may be determined by the Board with the consent of 

 the Governor. 



6. When the Board of Agriculture was established the proceeds of 

 the Agricultural Tax, amounting to about ^63,000 a year, were paid into 

 the Colonial Bank to a separate account to the credit of the Board, 

 and the Director of Agriculture dealt with the routine business of the 

 Board in the same way as with that of the Department. A Mycologist 

 and Entomologist were engaged by the Board in 1908. They were 

 paid by the Board but worked under the supervision of the Director of 

 Agriculture. In September 1909 the Assistant Director was made 

 Secretary to the Board, and in February 1910 at the instance of some 

 members of the Board the Mycologist and Entomologist were removed 

 from the control of the Director and placed under the Assistant Director 

 of Agriculture who was made Chief Executive Officer as well as Secretary 

 to the Board. In August 1910 on the death of Mr. Carruthers Assistant 

 Director, the Mycologist became Chief Executive Officer of the Board 

 and the post of Secretary was made a separate appointment. At the 

 end of 1915 the post of paid Secretary was abolished, and the Mycolo- 

 gist became honorary Secretary in addition to his duties as Chief 

 Executive Officer of the Board. He is now charged with the supervision 

 of the work of its officers and is also responsible for all payments made 

 on account of the Board. 



7. In addition to the Mycologist and Entomologist the Board of 

 Agriculture pays part of the salary of the Superintendent of Field 

 Experiments— an officer of the Department of Agriculture— who carries 

 out manurial and other experiments on behalf of both the Board 

 and the Department. The Superintendent of Field Experiments has a 

 clerical assistant who is paid partly by the department and partly by 

 the Board of Agriculture. 



The staff of the Board also includes a Laboratory and Field Assistant 

 laid five Agricultural Inspectors (now called Agricultural Advisers) 

 Avhose salaries are paid from the funds of the Board, but who with the 

 sanction of the Board work under the control and orders of the Director 

 of the Department of Agriculture. The Agricultural Advisers visit the 

 small proprietors and advise them as to methods of cultivation and as 

 to the prevention and cure of diseases. They also act as Inspectors 

 under the Plant Protection Ordinance. 



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