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they have a desire to improve their cultivation, and it is among 

 these people that I hope to see the agricultural 1 co-operative 

 banks succeed. 



The CHAIRMAN : I am afraid the time is approaching when 

 the next subject on the programme will have to be itaken. 

 With the consent of the President of the Congress I am 

 to submit for your consideration a resolution. I think that 

 those who have listened to the too few speeches which have 

 just been delivered will have come to the unanimous conclusion 

 that co-operation in the tropics is a very real and live issue. 

 As you know, in the United Kingdom agricultural co-operation 

 has become a matter of public interest quite recently, and we 

 who are watching the movement find that in every civilized 

 country in the world which had not formerly adopted agricul- 

 tural co-operation, it is being enthusiastically taken up. Well, 

 it would be a pity if this Congress were to separate without 

 having taken some step to see that the subject is not derelict. 

 I mean that if you do not treat it at all it will not only be a 

 great loss to the movement, but it would positively do harm, 

 because naturally all outsiders like myself would come to the 

 conclusion that agricultural co-operation is not practicable in 

 the circumstances of the countries from which you severally 

 come. 



The resolution that I would submit is : 



That a Committee be appointed by this Congress with 

 instructions to see that the subject of agricultural co-operation 

 (including credit) is given a prominent place at the next Con- 

 gress, and to obtain reports from every tropical country where 

 the subject is being considered and is the basis of action by 

 Governmental authorities, or voluntary agencies. 



I suggest that resolution just to keep the question alive, and 

 to ensure that it has a prominent place at the next Congress, 

 when no doubt it will have a very much more important place in 

 the life of tropical countries than it has at present. 



The PRESIDENT : I have very much pleasure in formally 

 seconding the motion which Sir Horace Plunkett has made, 

 and in promising that if you adopt it it shall be brought before 

 the General Assembly of the Congress next Tuesday. I ought 

 perhaps to apologize to Sir Horace Plunkett for the fact that 

 such a very short time can be given to this very important 

 subject, but as those concerned in the arrangements made for 

 this Congress are aware, our difficulty has been to fit in the 

 number of different subjects which have had to be discussed, 

 within a week. It has really been a very serious difficulty, and 

 it has led to some subjects having been omitted altogether by 

 force of circumstances, and to other subjects not perhaps 



