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Agriculture. He, however, did not agree with Mr. 
Gilzean when he said that the Secretary should be an 
officer employed in one of the departments of the Govern- 
ment Service, and who might be given a small increase 
to his salary for the work he had to do. If the Board 
of Agriculture was to be of any value at all, he thought 
it would require the full time of a very efficient Secretary 
to keep it together. On the Secretary would depend a 
good deal of the management and dire6lion of the Board 
of Agriculture. With that exception he quite agreed 
with the proposal which had been published on the 
subje6l. 
The President said he was very glad to have heard 
what Mr. Gilzean had said. Any expression of opinion 
coming from this body must strengthen the hands of the 
Government. There were one or two matters which he 
would like to explain with regard to this proposal. It 
had been a pet scheme of his, and it was the wish of His 
Excellency and his predecessors that it should be adopted. 
Of course, one was quite liable to be met with 
the question : "What is the Royal Agricultural and 
Commercial Society doing if it cannot condu6l this 
business ? " He thought anybody who came there would 
know how impossible that would be. They were not a 
body, constituted as they were, that could possibly 
condu6l the agricultural business of a colony such 
as this. They were a large body, and had a large 
number of subscribers, but as they would see to-day there 
was little interest taken in their meetings, and it 
was with extreme regret and a feeling almost of dis- 
