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was Chairman. The proposals made for giving grants to 

 agricultural and dairy schools in Great Britain were approved. 

 Practical effect was given to some of the recommendations 

 in question by a sum of 5000 being placed on the Estimates 

 for the current financial year. Grants were made to several 

 institutions, after inspection by officers of the Government, 

 and proposals for further aid to others were alluded to in 

 the Annual Report of the Chamber for 1888, as being still 

 under consideration by the Agricultural Department of the 

 Privy Council. The report added : 



" Inquiries are being conducted by the Government into the 

 most practicable methods of stimulating local efforts by means of 

 State aid ; and, at the request of the Lord President of the 

 Council, Major Craigie (Secretary of the Central Chamber) has 

 been engaged in investigating the system of official assistance to 

 agricultural schools in France." 



At the meeting in June, 1889, a resolution^was unanimously 

 carried urging the Government to postpone for one year the 

 proposals contained in the new Elementary Education Code. 

 These proposals gave effect to several of the recommendations 

 of the Royal Commission which involved additional expendi- 

 ture, without making provision for defraying the same. 

 The Government eventually agreed to postpone the Code for 

 a year. 



In February, 1890, after a discussion on recent legislation 

 for promoting technical education in agriculture, the Council 

 appointed a new Education Committee, consisting of Mr. 

 Clare Sewell Read, Mr. Jasper More, M.P., Sir Richard Paget, 

 M.P., Mr. S. B. L. Druce, Mr. Ramsden (Warwickshire). 

 Mr. Rigby (Che.sh.ire), Mr. Bell (Newcastle), Colonel Legard 

 (York), Mr. W. Nethersole (Canterbury) and Mr. Whitehouse 

 Griffin (Bucks). Its reference was to report how far technical 

 education and the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, could 

 benefit agriculture. The Farmers' Club having appointed 

 a Committee with a similar object about the same time, the 

 two Committees amalgamated, and elected Sir Richard Paget 

 as their Chairman. This Committee presented their report 

 on 6th May, 1890, when it was sent down to local Chambers 

 for their consideration. On 3rd June it was formally adopted 



