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new regulations, as originally drafted, would increase the 

 expenditure on this class of schools to an extent that could 

 be justified only by larger Imperial grants. 



On 4th April the Committee reported that the Code, as 

 actually laid before Parliament, was less open to objection 

 than the proposals which had been issued the previous autumn, 

 but that, nevertheless, it might still injuriously affect the 

 finances of the smaller schools, while it left a large and variable 

 discretion in the hands of her Majesty's Inspectors. At 

 this meeting the Council objected to the proposal in the new 

 Code to give secondary instruction in primary schools, and 

 an urgent request was addressed to the Education Depart- 

 ment to provide in their instructions to Inspectors for the 

 special case of schools in poor, scattered and hilly districts. 

 Some such instructions were issued to Inspectors during this 

 year, but the time allowed for their trial was too short to 

 permit a definite judgment of their effectiveness to be 

 formed. 



The Committee reported in June, 1884, specially referring 

 to the report of the Royal Commission which had been 

 considering the state of technical education in this country, 

 and calling attention to the report of one of the Sub -Com- 

 missioners (Mr. H. M. Jenkins, Secretary to the Royal 

 Agricultural Society), in which he compared the position 

 of agricultural education in this country with that on the 

 Continent of Europe. In the International Conference on 

 Education held in connection with and at the Health Exhibi- 

 tion 011 4th August, the defects of our English system of 

 agricultural education were illustrated, and papers were read 

 by members of this Committee. 



In 1886 the Committee was specially reappointed to arrange 

 as to laying evidence before the Education Commission, but 

 apparently they did not send any witnesses, as there is no 

 record of the appointment of such. 



In March, 1888, the Council considered the recommendations 

 made to the Government in favour of State aid to agricul- 

 tural education by the Departmental Committee on Agri- 

 cultural and Dairy Schools, of w r hich Sir Richard Paget 



