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the discussion of all questions connected with education in rural 

 districts and for the periodical exchange of views between repre- 

 sentative agriculturists and the two Departments. This Conference, 

 which will be constituted by a later minute to be issued in the 

 course of the Autumn, will consist of members nominated by the 

 County Councils Association, the Agricultural Education Association, 

 the, Royal Agricultural Society of England and other leading agri- 

 cultural organisations, together with six additional members to be 

 nominated by the Presidents of the two Boards so as to provide 

 for the inclusion : a) of persons specially competent to deal with 

 educational questions so far as the rural districts are concerned, 

 and ; b) of representatives of districts not adequately covered 'by 

 existing agricultural organisations. The Conference will be attended 

 also by such Officers of the two Boards as may be nominated by 

 their respective Presidents to take part in its deliberations and to 

 supply information or to give explanations with regard to any 

 questions that may be raised. 



2. In order to avoid overlapping or duplication of work in the 

 sphere of Agricultural Education between the Board of Agriculture 

 and the Board of Education, and at the same time to secure that 

 every portion of the field is as largely aided and developed as 

 possible, by the combined and separate efforts of the two Boards, 

 it has been arranged that in future all Parliamentary Grants in 

 respect of Agricultural Education shall be distributed, in the case 

 of Institutions giving instruction to students taking Advanced 

 Courses in Agriculture or in some special branch thereof as further 

 defined below, by the Board of Agriculture, and as regards other 

 forms of Agricultural Education by the Board of Education. But 

 this distribution will be carried out by both Boards under condi- 

 tions which will secure that the various sections of work thus aided 

 are in due relation to one another. And, in order to facilitate this, 

 an Inter-departmental Committee consisting of responsible Officers 

 of the two Boards will be constituted, to consider and report to 

 the Boards on all questions which may arise either as to the cor- 

 relation of the duties of the two Boards or as to the grants to be 

 made in cases in which they are mutually interested. This Com- 

 mittee will meet from time to time as may be required. Officers 

 of either Board, other than those appointed as members of the 

 Committee, may assist the Committee from time to time as the 

 Committee or either Board may think desirable. 



