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After deciding upon the form of the organisation the provisional committee had, 
tnter alia, to provide a constitution that should— 
(a) Prove acceptable to all classes of agriculture whether {the same happened 
to be more or less or not atall locally organised ; 
(b} Give to all sections of the above adequate representation ; 
(c) Secure an equitable and workable mode for electing these representatives ; 
(d) Provide a supreme governing council of direct representatives from all 
parts of the State with an executive composed of members as widely 
representative as would be compatible with the attending of frequent 
meetings; 
(e) Assure a free hand for speaking and acting irrespective of State or Federal 
Government influence ; 
(f) Inciude the means by which sufficient funds might be forthcoming to 
enable the chamber to do effective work for its supporters, their specific 
interests, and agriculture generally ; 
As requested by the Bundaberg Conference, the scheme and rules for organisa- 
tion when ready in a provisional form were submitted to a meeting of some thirty odd 
delegates from various agricultural associations which met in Brisbane on 20th 
September last year. This meeting carried a resolution that a Queensland Chamber 
of Agriculture be formed, and after considerable discussion adopted the scheme 
submitted, and with some minor modifications also adopted the rules which had been 
prepared by the provisional committee. 
The committee of delegates further appointed the first office-bearers for the new 
chamber. 
To date, the chamber has during the eight months of its existence succeeded in 
affiliating with itself some twelve agricultural associations, and has in addition over 
100 individual or, as they are termed, “ direct members.” 
Its receipts have been roughly £50, and its outgo £40, including all preliminary 
costs and the printing of rules and essays read at the meetings. 
The executive have held regular monthly meetings for the consideration of all 
business submitted to it, and various sub-committees have been appointed to carry out 
special business between the meetings, besides which various deputations have been 
arranged to the Government departments and carrying companies. 
Tt has watched on behalf of agriculturists in this State the legislation affecting 
them under discussion in the Federal Parliament, and has made prompt representation 
in the interests of the agricultural industry whenever necessary. It has keptin touch 
with and enlisted the co-operation of such of the Queensland members in the Federal 
Parliament as have been willing to assist. 
The Commonwealth Parliament, it is understood, has given consideration to this 
chamber’s representations, and one of the Federal departments, at the chamber’s 
request, promptly removed some unsatisfactory regulations hampering interstate 
dealing in perishable produce. Various freight and carrying disabilities both in 
connection with the railways and steamship companies have been tackled, and 
substantial abatement secured. 
Original papers of interest to producers have been read and discussed at the 
executive meetings, and printed copies of the same sent to members. The president 
(Hon. A. J. Thynne), at the invitation of the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies’ 
Union of New South Wales, attended a meeting held in Sydney, and the chamber had 
the satisfaction of finding those interested in this new union in the mother State 
prepared to alter its constitution in order to come on to the same lines as the Queensland 
chainber, the Queensland organisation being considered more practical than their own. 
The first circular issued by the executive on behalf of the chamber, in addition to 
making an earnest appeal to existing associations and individual agriculturists for 
support, pointed out that those most interested—viz., the agriculturists themselyes—by 
identification with the chamber, could soon render it aud themselves a power for good 
in the State; explained tliat the first executive had been chosen so as to secure regular 
attendance at the monthly and such special meetings as would have to be summoned 
to consider urgent business; urged each affiliated association and individual member 
to take a practical interest in the chamber’s working, by submitting any difliculties 
under which they laboured as well as matters of interest affecting agriculture and the 
producing interests generally, and strongly emphasised the fact that, to enable the new 
chamber to hold a similarly effective position to that occupied by the various Australian 
Chambers of Commerce or Industries, the regular services of an efficient secretary 
ought to be retained, so that the work of the chamber would go on continuously. 
__ If these jottings assist to bring before Queensland agriculturists the fact that 
there has been satisfactorily launched an organisation capable of rendering them 
