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appointed, the appointed members being representatives of the 

 Board of Agriculture, the County Councils Association, the Co- 

 operative Union and other representative bodies. 



3. On the District Committees, or Boards, to which would be 

 entrusted the local administration of the Society's business, 

 County Councils within the district should be strongly 

 represented. 



The letter further stated that the Commissioners were 

 prepared to recommend the Treasury to make annually to 

 the Board of Agriculture such grants as they may be satisfied 

 are necessary for the energetic promotion of co-operation 

 among agriculturists in England and Wales, and that these 

 grants should be paid by the Board to the Society thus re- 

 constituted. 



The necessary resolutions for the voluntary winding up of 

 the old Society, under the conditions of the Development 

 Fund grant, were passed at meetings held in April and May, 

 191 2, and a new Society, with the same title, was registered 

 under section 20 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908. 

 The first Governors have been appointed jointly by the 

 Board of Agriculture and the Development Commissioners, 

 and are to remain in office until the first annual general 

 meeting, to be held after April 1st, 1914. Their present 

 number is not fixed. Those now holding office are as 

 follows : — 



Mr. R. A. Yerburgh, M.P., President. 



The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.P., K.C.V.O., Chairman of the 



Governors. 



Mr. F. D. Acland, M.P. Mr. Duncan Mclnnes. 



Mr. Charles Bathurst, M.P. Mr. George L. Pain. 



Mr. S. Bostock. Mr. Abel H. Smith. 



Mr. W. Fitzherbert-Brock- Mr. Clement Smith. 



holes, D.L. 



Mr. Philip Burtt. Lord Strachie. 



Mr. E. J. Cheney. The Hon. Edward Strutt. 



Mr. H. C. Fairfax-Cholmeley. Mr. A. Whitehead. 



Mr. J. S. Corbett. Mrs. Roland Wilkins. 



Mr. Rupert Ellis. Colonel Robert Williams, M.P. 



Mr. H. Jones-Davies. Sir James Wilson, K.C.S.I. 

 Mr. Cyprian-Knollys. 



Subsequently to the holding of the first annual general 



