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that their laboars, begun under the difficult Cv:)nditions which 

 prevailed during the War, will have a permanent influence in 

 raising the standard of cultivation in the districts where the 

 possibilities of improvement have been demonstrated in a 

 practical way. 



It may be added that the area of land still in j^ossession of 

 Agricultural Executive • Committees is about 82,000 acres, of 

 which 20,000 acres are farmed direct and 12,000 acres are let to 

 tenants. A great part of the land will be given up next Michael- 

 mas. The Agricultural Executive Committees, as such, will 

 shortly disappear, and the powers which they now exercise on 

 behalf of the Ministry will be transferred to the County Agricul- 

 tural Committees that have been recently set up under the 

 Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1919. 



