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5- Appointment of two assistants, Sugar Department. 



These were directed to be circulated. 



The Director of Public Gardens submitted Reports as follows : — 



1. Experiment Station. 



2. Instructors. 



3. Letter from India re varieties of bananas. 

 These were directed to be circulated. 



The following papers which had been circulated, but not yet 

 submitted to the Board, were submitted : — 



1. Memo re proposed alteration in Jamaica Scholarship. 



2. Report of Committee appointed to investigate the Cotton 

 Caterpillar Pest in Jamaica. It was resolved to publish this re- 

 port in the form of a special 'Bulletin.' 



3. Publications on ' Bud-rot Disease of Coco-nut Palms' and 

 forwarding diseased plants and insect pests, both sent by the Im- 

 perial Department of Agriculture, Barbados. 



[Issued 17th February, 1906. 



Printed at the Govt. Printing Office, Kingston,, Jam. 



