IdlSCKLLAXEOUS IXI-T)RMATION RELATING TO AORICl'LTURAL 

 ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



(;REAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



\VA(i1':S HOARDS IX I-.N<".I^ANI) AND WAIvKS. — Ihe Jo-inial <il AvicuUiir.- . Vol. XXIV, 

 Xo. 7, 1,011 < Ion, Ociobir I'li/. 



In pursuance of the Corn Production Act 1917 (i) tiie Board of Agri- 

 culture and Eisheries issued on the 28th of last September provisional re- 

 gulations, to have immediate force^ with respect to the constitution and pro- 

 ceedings of the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales, shortly 

 to be appointed. 



In addition to the Central Wages Board, District Wages Committees 

 will be set up throughout England and Wales, each comprising an equal 

 number of representatives of emplo^'ers and workers, respectively, and also 

 one or more impartial persons a])pointed by the Board of Agriculture and 

 Eisheries. These Committees will have to make recommendations to the 

 Central Board as to the rates of wages applicable to their districts. 



As will be observed from the provisional regulations the representa- 

 tive members on the Central Board will be partly elected by organizations 

 re])resenting farmers and labourers, respectively, and parth' nominated by 

 the Board of Agriculture and Eisheries. 



The President will be glad to receive and consider suggested names of 

 rei)resentatives of employers, submitted by farmers' organizations, or by 

 groups of at least ten farmers, and of representatives of workers, submitted 

 by labourers' organizations, or by groups of at least ten agricultural la- 

 bourers. Erom among the persons so suggested nominated representative 

 members of the Central Board and of the District Committees will be se- 

 lected. Members of the Central Board and of District Committees will be 

 entitled to an allowance in respect of out-of-pocket expenses. 



The Provisional Regulations are as follows : 



"I. An Agricultural Wages Board shall be established for England 

 and Wales consisting of 39 ])ersons, of whom seven shall be appointed 

 members and the remainder representative members. The represent- 

 ative members shall be members representing emplo\'ers and workmen, 

 respectiveh', in equal proportions. 



" 2. The Chairman and Deput^^ Chairman shall be appointed by the 

 Board of Agriculture and Eisheries from among the members of the Wa- 

 ges Board, and each of them shall (provided that he continues to be a mem- 

 ber of the Wages Board) hold ofhce for .such period as the Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Eisheries maj' determine. 



" 3. The appointed members shall be such persons as maybe selected 



(1) For this Act set- the preceding article and article on pai;es 67 to 71 of onr issue for 

 October 1017. 



