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CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MEETING OF 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1912. 



A meeting of the Board of Agriculture was held at the Council Cham- 

 ber at 12 noon on Tuesday the 10th September, 1912. 



His Excellency the Governor presided. 



The others present included :— Sir Hugh Clifford, Sir S. C. Obeye- 

 sekere, Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, The Hon'ble Mr. Bernard 

 Senior, The Hon'ble Mr. P. Arunachalam, The Hon'ble Mr. A. Kanaga- 

 sabai, The Hon'ble Mr. J. N. Tisseverasinghe, The Hon'ble Mr. R. B. 

 Hellings, Mr. R. N. Lyne (Director of Agriculture), Mr. J. Harward, Mr. 

 M. Kelway Bamber, W. Duncwille Disava, Mr. J. H. Meedeniya, R. 

 M., Mr. James Peiris, Mr. Tudor Rajapakse, Gate Mudaliyar, Mr. G. 

 Harbord, Mr. F. L. Daniel and Mr. C. Drieberg (Secretary). As visitors % 

 Mr. S. Freudenberg and a few others. 



The minutes of the last meeting held on May 9th, 1912, were read 

 and confirmed. 



The Progress Report (No. 60) was adopted on the motion of Mr. James 

 Peiris, seconded by Mr. Tudor Rajapakse. The Hon'ble Mr. Kanaga- 

 sabai referred to the possibility of growing and curing tobacco in Jaffna 

 for the foreign market and enquired whether anything had been decided 

 about the matter. Mr. Lyne, Director of Agriculture, replied that he had 

 the matter under consideration but had made no definite recommendations 

 to Government as yet. Dunuwille Disava wished to be informed what 

 were the duties of the Agricultural Instructors. Mr. Drieberg, the 

 Secretary, replied: 



His Excellency the President enquired whether any call had been 

 made by the All-Ceylon Exhibition on the guarantee vote of Rs. 15,000. 

 The Secretary replied that from all he could gather no call was likely to 

 be made. Sir Hugh Clifford stated that the final meeting of the Exhibi- 

 tion Committee was to be held within a week wben it would be definitely 

 known how the finances stood. 



The Hon'ble Mr. Arunachalam proposed " That meetings of the 

 Boaid be held quarterly instead of every alternate month, and that each 

 meeting be followed by a General Meeting of the Society so as to admit of 

 members of the Society taking part in the discussion of the paper or 

 lecture of the day." Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike seconded, and the 

 motion was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. W. A. de Silva read his paper on "Seed in Paddy Cultivation," 

 which evoked considerable interest. Mr. Bamber lead a note by Dr. 

 Lock, and the Director of Agriculture summed up the discussion, deal- 

 ing with the points brought out by the paper. 



His Excellency, in thanking Mr. de Silva for his very interesting 

 paper, remarked that he was one of those active members of the Society 

 who was always reaily to come forward and give others the benefit of his 

 study and observation. His Excellency also thanked the Director and Dr. 

 Lock for their interesting remarks, 

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