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be seen that the actual appointment rests with the 

 local authorities. 



Miss Lucy Douglas, in Cavan, is at present 

 the only woman gardener employed under it. 



SCHEME OP INSTRUCTION IN HORTICULTURE AND THE 

 MANAGEMENT OF BEES, 1907-8 



1. The department are prepared, provided a suitable 

 instructor in horticulture and bee-keeping can be obtained, 

 to approve of the appointment of at least one such person 

 for each county in Ireland. In the case of new appoint- 

 ments no person shall be eligible for the position of instructor 

 in the county of which he is a native, or in which he per- 

 manently resides. 



2. The department will, as far as possible, assist the 

 county committee in obtaining an instructor, by supplying 

 the names of persons qualified for the post. If a county 

 committee should find it impossible to obtain a person 

 competent to give instruction in both branches the depart- 

 ment may sanction the employment of separate instructors 

 for each subject. 



3. The remuneration of the instructor shall not, unless 

 in exceptional circumstances, exceed £2 per week, in 

 addition to expenses of locomotion, which include second 

 or third-class railway fare, as decided by the county 

 committee, car hire when necessary, or a bicycle allowance 

 not exceeding 2d. per mile in lieu thereof. 



4. The employment of the instructor under this scheme 

 shall not continue beyond the 30th of September, 1908, 

 and is terminable at any time previous to that date by 



