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they have a desire to improve their cultivation, and it is among 
these people that I hope to see the agricultural co-operative 
banks succeed. 
The Cuatrman: I am afraid the time is approaching when 
the next subject on the programme will have to be taken. 
With the consent of the President of the Congress I am 
to submit for your consideration a resolution. I think that 
those who have listened to the too few speeches which have 
just been delivered will have come to the unanimous conclusion 
that co-operation in the tropics is a very real and live issue. 
As you know, in the United Kingdom agricultural co-operation 
has become a matter of public interest quite recently, and we 
who are watching the movement find that in every civilized 
country in the world which had not formerly adopted agricul- 
tural co-operation, it is being enthusiastically taken up. Well, 
it would be a pity if this Congress were to separate without 
having taken some step to see that the subject is not derelict. 
I mean that if you do not treat it at all it will not only be a 
great loss to the movement, but it would positively do harm, 
because naturally all outsiders like myself would come to the 
conclusion that agricultural co-operation is not practicable in 
the circumstances of the countries from which you severally 
come. 
The resolution that I would submit is:— 
That a Committee be appointed by this Congress with 
instructions to see that the subject of agricultural co-operation 
(including credit) is given a prominent place at the next Con- 
gress, and to obtain reports from every tropical country where 
the subject is being considered and is the basis of action by 
Governmental authorities, or voluntary agencies. 
I suggest that resolution just to keep the question alive, and 
to ensure that it has a prominent place at the next Congress, 
when no doubt it will have a very much more important place in 
the life of tropical countries than it has at present. 
The Presipent: I have very much pleasure in formally 
seconding the motion which Sir Horace Plunkett has made, 
and in promising that if you adopt it it shall be brought before 
the General Assembly of the Congress next Tuesday. I ought 
perhaps to apologize to Sir Horace Plunkett for the fact that 
such a very short time can be given to this very important 
subject, but as those concerned in the arrangements made for 
this Congress are aware, our difficulty has been to fit in the 
number of different subjects which have had to be discussed, 
within a week. It has really been a very serious difficulty, and 
it has led to some subjects having been omitted altogether by 
force of circumstances, and to other subjects not perhaps 
