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conditions as they may think fit " for a variety of purposes, 

 the first-mentioned of which were : — 



Aiding and developing agriculture and rural industries by 

 promoting scientific research, instruction and experiments in the 

 science, methods and practice of agriculture (including the 

 provision of farm-institutes), the organisation of co-operation, 

 instruction in marketing produce, and the extension of the 

 provision of small holdings ; and by the adoption of any other 

 means which appear calculated to develop agriculture and rural 

 industries. 



The A. O. S. being " an association of persons not trading 

 for profit," and having on hand (as will be explained later 

 on) a scheme of Branch Devolution which would involve a 

 complete reorganisation of its work, applied for an annual 

 grant to meet the cost of that scheme. 



An interim grant was made on July 25th, 1911, subject to 

 certain conditions which were duly carried out. The 

 Society removed from Dacre House, Westminster, to more 

 commodious premises at Queen Anne's Chambers, West- 

 minster ; it made the stipulated appointments, and it 

 obtained extra clerical assistance in order to meet at once 

 the emergency created by the substantial increase then 

 proceeding in the work. 



Basis of Reconstitution. 



The conditions recommended by the Development Com- 

 missioners to be attached to a permanent grant to the 

 Society, so far as they referred to its reconstitution on 

 representative and national fines, were indicated in a letter 

 received from the secretary of the Development Commission, 

 dated May 30th, 1911, following on an interview between 

 representatives of the Development Commission and the 

 Society, at which the matter was discussed. Briefly stated, 

 the conditions were as follows : — 



1. The reconstitution and registration of the A. 0. S. as a 

 non-profit-earning Association under Section 20 of the Companies 

 (Consolidation) Act of 1908. 



2. The governing body to be partly elective and partly 



