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select centres at which the lectures and demonstrations 

 will be given, and to appoint at each centre a local com- 

 mittee, with an honorary secretary, who should select 

 the school and arrange for the hiring, lighting, and warming 

 of the room in which the lectures will be dehvered. 



In selecting centres the county committee should have 

 particular regard to districts in which lectures and demon- 

 strations may not have been given in previous years. 



It will also be the duty of the county committee to 

 undertake the responsibility of seeing that the instructor's 

 time is fully and usefully employed. 



The county committee shall keep a separate account of 

 all expenditure under this scheme, and shall furnish detailed 

 statements of such expenditure as may from time to time 

 be required by the department. 



9. Where it is considered desirable to arrange for 

 lectures, the lectures should be given in schoolrooms or 

 other suitable pubhc rooms in the evenings, and should 

 be held in rural centres. Towns and the larger villages 

 should be avoided, as experience has shown that the 

 greatest success attends those lectures which are given 

 in the rural parts of a county. The local committee at 

 each centre should be responsible for appointing a repre- 

 sentative chairman for each lecture as well as for the 

 distribution of the short syllabus of the lectures which will 

 be prepared by the lecturer as soon as he is appointed. 

 The local committee should undertake to have posters 

 and handbills, which will be supplied by the secretary 

 of the county committee, effectively displayed and dis- 

 tributed throughout their district. Copies of these posters 



