ENGLAND AND WALES 



XIII. 



563 



: Tabled X I y r ~Dairy Produce, 190$. 



Table XV. -^Timber, 1908. 



Development Cdmrnissipn. The Development Commission was instituted in May 

 1910 under the provision of the Development and Road Improvement Fund Acts of 

 that and the previous year. It consists of eight commissioners appointed for ten years, 

 one (who is eligible for re-appointment) retiring every two years. In the order in which 

 they were to retire, the commissioners were as follows: Mr. H. J. Davies, Sir S. Eardley 

 Wilmot, Mr. M. A. Ennis, Mr. W. S. Haldane, Mr. A. D. Hall, F.R.S., Mr. Sidney Webb, 

 Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish (chairman) and Sir Francis Hopwood (vice-chair- 

 man). Mr. Vaughan Nash, who had been private secretary to the Prime Minister, 

 Mr. Asquith, succeeded to the vice-chairmanship in 1912. The function of the Com- 

 mission is to consider the development of agriculture and other economic resources of 

 the kingdom and to advise the Treasury as to the disposal of grants and loans for purposes 

 connected with agriculture, forestry, reclamation of land, rural transport other than 

 roads, canals, harbours and fisheries/The sums available are partly voted by parlia- 

 ment, partly charged on the consolidated fund, and partly received by way of interest 

 on and repayment of loans, and of profits received (if so provided) on works started by a 

 grant or loan from the Commission. 



Agricultural Progress. 1 In Norfolk the inception of sugar-beet growing on a consider- 



1 See also "Agriculture" in Part I of the YEAR-BOOK. : 



