IXFORMATIOX RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 8l 



" 8. Any representative member who, in the opinion of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, fails without reasonable. cause to attend one half 

 of the total number of meetings in a calendar year shall vacate his seat. 



" g. If in the opinion of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries any 

 representative member shall be incapable of acting as a member of the ^^'a- 

 ges Board, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may determine his 

 appointment and he shall thereupon vacate his seat. 



" 10. At the end of one year from the date of the establishment of the 

 \A''ages Board five representative members to be chosen by lot from among 

 the members representing employers and fi^•e representative members 

 to be chosen by lot from among the members representing workmen (in 

 each case excluding additional representative members nominated under 

 paragraph 6 of these Regulations) shall retire from the Wages Board. 



" II. At the end of two years from the date of the establishment of the 

 Wages Board five representative members to be chosen by lot from among 

 the members representing employers and five representative members to 

 be chosen b}' lot from among the members representing workmen (in each 

 case excluding additional representative members nominated under para- 

 graph 6 of these regulations and excluding members filling the vacancies 

 created by the operation of paragraph lo) shall retire from the Wages Board. 



" 12. The term of office of an appointed member shall be two years, and. 



subject to the provisions of paragraphs 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, the term of 



office of a representative member shall be three years, provided that — 



(a) A member appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall sit onl}- for 



the unexpired portion of the term of office of his predecessor ; 



and 



{b) A seat rendered vacant by effluxion of time shall, in the event of 



delaj' occurring in filling it, be temporarily occupied by the 



retiring member until a successor is appointed. 



" 13. Any person vacating his seat on the Wages Board under any of 

 the preceding paragraphs or for any other reason otherwise than under 

 ])aragraph 9 of these Regulations shall be eligible to be reappointed as 

 a member of the Wages Board. 



"14. A vacancy among representatives members shall be filled in the 

 same manner as in the case of the original appointment to the vacated seat. 



"15. Every member of the Wages Board shall have one vote. If at 

 any meeting of the Board the number of members present representing 

 employers and workmen, respectively, is unequal, it shall be open to the 

 side which is in the majority to arrange that one or more of their members 

 shall refrain from voting, so as to preserve equality. Failing such an ar- 

 rangement, the Chairman, or, in his absence,the Deputy Chairman, may, if 

 he thinks it desirable, adjourn the voting 011 any question to another meet- 

 ing of the Board. The Chairman, or, in his 'absence, the Deputy Chairman 

 shall, in the event of an equal division, have a second or casting vote. 



" 16. The expressions "agriculture" and "workmen" in the regula- 

 ti()ns shall have the meanings given in the Corn Production, Act 1917 (i). 

 (i) See the article already cited in our issue for last October. 



