Staff Changes, 9:i 



(2) Agricultukal Education. 



Datk. Name op Official and Nature of Change, etc. 



6/9/19 E. G. Parish, B.Sc. : Transferred from Elsenburg to Glen School of Agriculture 

 as Vice-Principal. 

 31/10/19 Alex. Holm : Under->-ecretary for Agriculture (Education), resigned to take up 

 the post of Director of Agriculture, Nairobi, British East Afi'ica. Mr. Holm 

 was the first General Manager of the Potchefstroom Experiment Farm 

 (1903), and on the establishment of the School of Agriculture at that centre 

 was appointed Principal (1909). On 1st October, 1912, he accepted the 

 post of Under-Secretary for Agriculture (Education), which he held until 

 date of leaving th-i Department. 

 1/11/19 E. J. Macmillan B.S.A. : I'rincipal, School of Agriculture and Experiment 

 Station, Potchefstroom, was appointed Undei'-Secretary for Agriculture 

 (Education) on the resignation of Mr. Holm. Mr. Macmillan, before accepting 

 the Principalship of Potchefstroom, served from 190-1 in several capacities in 

 the Orange Frte State Department of Agriculture, Bloemfontein. 

 31/10/19 P. Fowlie, N.D.A. (Hons.) N.D.D. : Itinerant Instructor and Experimentalist, 

 School of Agricultuie, Cedara. Resigned. 

 31 '1/20 Miss C. Lavec ur : Lecturer in Domestic Science. Resigned. 



31/1/20 D. J. Pot^ieter, B Sc. (Agr.) : Itinerant Instructor and Experimentalist, School of 

 Agriculture, Gien. Resigned. 

 1/2/20 J. Quiiilan, P>.A., M.R.C.V.S. : Lecuirerin Veterinary Science, School of Agriculture, 

 Potchefstroom, transferred to Veterinary Research Laboratory, Onderstepoort. 

 20/12/19 E. Holmes Smith, BSc. : Botanist, School of Agriculture, Potchefstr' om. Resigned. 

 2/20 T. G. W. Reinecke, B.A., M.Sc. (Agr.). : Principal, School of Agriculture, Elsen- 

 burg, fransferred to Potch 'fstro im clce E. J. Macmillan, B.S.A, 

 2/20 W. J. Lamont : Vice- Principal, Grqotfoutein School of Agriculture, promoted to 

 Elsenburg. 



MOVEMENTS, ETC., OF OFFICERS. 



Sheep Division. 



After an ab<^ence of seven months, Mr. Enslin, Chief of the Sheep Division, has returned 

 to the Union from a tour in Europe and America, and resumed his duties in the Division. 



Senior Sheep and Wool Expert McCail has been temporardy transferred to Headquar- 

 ters and appointed Acting Principal Sheep and Wool Expert during Mr. Michaelian's 

 absence in Australia. Mr. Leo Visser, after successfully completing his course in sheep and 

 wool in Australia, has been appoimed Sheep and Wool Expeit in the Union. Mr. 0. C. 

 Weeber has been transferred to the South- West Africa Protectorate, where he has taken 

 up the post of Principal Sheep Inspector. 



Dairy Division. 



Dairy Inspector Gow has been away for the past three months in East Griqualand 

 inspecting all cheese factories and creameries under the Dairy Industry and Factory Acts, 

 and instructing in cheese making and grading cheese. Owing to the resignation of Mr. J. 

 F. Stephenson, Official Cheese Grader in that District, Mr. H. G. Rae was appointed in his 

 place on twelve months' probation, and has accompanied Inspector Gow for the past four 

 or five weeks for the purpose of being initiated into his duties. Dairy Inspector Oosterlaak 

 has been busily engaged for some time past in various parts of the Transvaal, where, since 

 the late rains, dairying is once more going ahead. 



Veterinary Research. 



Mr. R. E. Montgomery, at present on leave in England, has accepted a post under the 

 Uganda Administration, and the Union Government has agreed to his transfer. Arrange- 

 ments are not yet complete as to Mr. Montgomery's successor. 



