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The Minute, dated February 4th, 19 10, constituting a Rural Educa- 

 tion Conference referred to in the Memorandum of Arrangements * 

 between the Board of Agriculture and 

 Rural Education Fisheries and the Board of Education in 

 Conference regard to agricultural education, has been 



printed pursuant to an Order of the House 

 of Lords [H.L. 63. Price ^d.] This document also contains a further 

 Minute, dated June 20th, 19 10, which gives the names of the members 

 of the Committee, and empowers the Conference to appoint Committees 

 to consider and advise upon particular sections of the subject. The 

 names of the members were given in this Journal, July, 19 10, p. 318. 

 The Minute constituting the Conference is as follows: — 



1. We have agreed upon the following constitution of the Rural 

 Education Conference referred to in paragraph (1) of our Memorandum 

 of Arrangements between the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and 

 the Board of Education in regard to Agricultural Education in England 

 and Wales, dated September 22nd, 1909, and laid before Parliament 

 (White Paper Cd. 4886). 



2. The Conference shall consist of 42 Members, of whom six, to be 

 called Official Members, will be nominated by ourselves, and the rest, 

 to be called Representative Members, shall be nominated, for a term 

 of three years in each case, as set out hereunder : — 



Representative Members. 

 1 by the University of Oxford, 

 1 by the University of Cambridge, 

 1 by the University of Durham, 

 1 by the University of Leeds, 



1 by the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 



1 by the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 

 3 by the County Councils Association, 



3 by the Agricultural Education Association, 



3 by the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 



2 by the Central Chamber of Agriculture, 



2 by the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society,, 

 2 by the Central Land Association, 



1 by the Farmers' Club, 



2 by the Surveyors' Institution, 

 1 by the Land Agents' Society, 



1 by the North Eastern Agricultural Federation, 



1 by the Yorkshire Union of Agricultural Clubs and Chambers of 



Agriculture, 

 1 by the Lancashire Farmers' Association, 

 1 by the National Farmers' Union, 

 1 by the Welsh National Agricultural Society, 



1 by the Agricultural Organisation Society, 



2 by the Royal English Arboricultural Society, 

 2 by the Royal Horticultural Society, 



1 by the British Dairy Farmers' Association. 



3. The Conference will also be attended by such Officers of the 

 two Boards as may be nominated by their respective Presidents to 



* Journal, October, 1909, p. 529. 



