128 AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



meeting of the Society, after April ist, 1914, the Board is 

 to consist of 36 Governors, chosen as follows : — 



Elective (including the President) 

 Appointed by the Board of Agriculture 



County Councils Association 2 



,, ,, Co-operative Union 



Co-opted by the Governors 



Total . 



18 

 12 



2 



2 



36 



Power is taken either to increase or to reduce the number 

 of Governors, provided that the same proportion as in the 

 above list is maintained between the elective Governors (that 

 is to say those who have been elected by the affiliated 

 societies) and those appointed by the Board of Agri- 

 culture, though the total number is at no time to 

 exceed 60. 



It will be seen that, in the first instance, a guarantee of 

 proper expenditure of grants from the Development Fund 

 is assured by the appointment of the first Board of Governors 

 by the two bodies by or through whom the grants are made, 

 while the fact that a number of the Governors so appointed 

 have been chosen from the Executive Committee of the old 

 Society will no less assure a continuity of experience and 

 policy. 



By the end of this first period the Society, as re-consti- 

 tuted, will have settled its policy, and have brought about, 

 through its organising efforts, the formation of a much larger 

 number of affiliated societies, and these will naturally expect 

 to have a share in the work of administration. Hence the 

 introduction of the elective element. 



The reconstitution of the Agricultural Organisation 

 Society on this greatly expanded scale of usefulness will have 

 the effect of placing on a permanently established basis a 

 movement previously dependent to so large an extent on 

 voluntary support, though aiming at the accomplishment of 

 a really national work. 



