Berean Congo:
Monsieur Van den Abeele.
ITALIAN SOMALILAND :
Cavalieri Bicchieri.
PorrtucUESE EAST AFRICA :
Mr. C. B. Hardenberg, B.A., M.A.
Senhor F. Montiero Grillo, E.A., T.S.A.
Baron J. M. R. Surcouf, pn.se., L.A.9.P,
Senhor Luis de Sa Pereira, G.s.A.
SECRETARY :
Colonel C. W. G. Walker, p.s.o.
(Secretary, East African Governors’ Conference.)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY :
Mr. E. J. Waddington, o.B.E.
(Asst. Secretary, East African Governors’ Conference.)
CHAIRMEN OF SECTIONS :
Agricultural Sos So re Hon. Alex. Holm, c.B.E.
Cotton ... oh on oy Mr. S. Milligan.
Entomological and Mycological Mr. Claude Fuller.
NOTE ON THE CONVENING OF THE CONFERENCE.
With the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the
Kenya Government had, early in 1925, issued invitations to various
Governments for an Agricultural Conference to be held in Nairobi
during that year.
The East Africa Commission also favoured the idea of the holding
of Technical Conferences, such as Agricultural or Cotton, with a view
to achieving co-ordination and co-operation between the East African
Territories.
Proposals were then made for Cotton and Entomological Con-
ferences. The Secretary of State for the Colonies however suggested
that the proposed Agricultural, Cotton and Entomological Conferences
should be combined, and directed that the question should be further
discussed at the Conference of Governors of the East African
Dependencies, which was assembling in Nairobi in January and
February, 1926. This was done, and, as a result of correspondence
between the Governors’ Conference and the Secretary of State with
regard to the date most suitable to all the various interests concerned,
the Secretary of State eventually fixed August, 1926, for the Combined
Agricultural, Cotton, Entomological and Mycological Conference; he
further directed that the Conference should be held in Nairobi; and
instructed the Secretariat of the Conference of Governors of the East
African Dependencies to make all the necessary arrangements.
