AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEES 109 



Fisheries Act, 19 19, can appoint quite a 

 number of farm workers as persons who " have 

 practical, commercial, technical, or scientific 

 knowledge of agriculture," as members of 

 County Committees, in actual practice he does 

 not do so. Nor has he, in certain counties, 

 even insisted upon, as I have already said, the 

 payment of subsistence allowance. To wait 

 for the process of getting a large number of 

 skilled farm workers elected to County Councils, 

 and thereby on to Agricultural Committees, is 

 much too slow to contemplate, while election ex- 

 penses have to be paid for by poor men, and loss 

 of time attending County Councils to be suffered. 



Number of Labour County Councillors. 



