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the spread of the disease. He must advise in writing the 

 county committee of each case in which stocks are so 

 destroyed, and the county committee may, if they think 

 fit, pay to the owners of such stocks a sum not exceeding 

 5s. for each stock destroyed, provided that the amount 

 set aside in the county scheme for compensation under this 

 clause shall not be exceeded. 



It will also be his duty to report to the county committee 

 the names and addresses of persons in the possession of 

 gooseberry bushes on which he has detected, or has reason- 

 able grounds for suspecting the existence of, American 

 gposeberry mildew. 



7. For the purposes of this scheme the county should 

 be divided into circuits. The instructor should work for 

 three or four weeks in each circuit, and give lectures and 

 demonstrations during that time. In cases, however, 

 where an instructor may be employed to give instruction 

 in bee-keeping only it will not be necessary to divide the 

 county into circuits. In such instances demonstrations 

 can be arranged for at centres from which applications 

 have been made through the secretary of the county 

 committee for his services. The instructor will visit 

 gardens, orchards or apiaries in the district, and give such 

 information on practical subjects as the circumstances of 

 the case may suggest. 



The county committee are alone responsible for the 

 selection of centres for lectures and demonstrations. No 

 work of this nature should be undertaken by the instructor, 

 though it is desirable that he should be consulted. 



8. It will be the duty of the county committee to 



