PART 1. 
To commence.a Conference such as this something was necessary 
for a start, and it was this which he proposed. The eventual lines on 
which the Conference worked could only be decided by the members 
themselves. 
At the beginning of this year, when the Conference of Governors 
of the East African Dependencies had held their meetings, it had been 
agreed to recommend that a permanent Secretariat for the Governors’ 
Conference should be located in Nairobi and that this Secretariat 
should not only be used for Conferences of Governors, but also for 
Technical Conferences such as the one now assembled. This proposal 
had been approved by the Secretary of State and the Secretariat 
was now a working institution. As the delegates were probably aware, 
the preliminary arrangements for the present combined Conference 
had been made by it. 
The original letters circulated had suggested that the Conference 
to begin with should be divided into three sections; a tentative agenda 
on these lines had been circulated and the proposal had been generally 
accepted by the Governments concerned. He suggested, therefore, 
that, unless the various members had other suggestions to put 
forward, work should start in three sections: one dealing with 
Agriculture, one with Cotton, and a third dealing with Entomology 
and Mycology. 
As regards the Chairmen of these sections, he suggested that 
the Chairman of the Agricultural Section should be the Hon. 
Alexander Holm, C.B.E., Director of Agriculture, Kenya; the 
Chairman of the Cotton Section should be Mr. Milligan, the senior 
representative of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation; and the 
Chairman of the Entomological and Mycological Section should be 
Mr. Fuller, the senior representative of the Union of South Africa, 
provided that these gentlemen were ready to accept the work. 
Messrs. Holm, Milligan, and Fuller said that they were ready to 
accept the Chairmanship of these sections. 
His Excellency said that as the Conference agreed with his 
proposal for starting work in three sections under the Chairmen whom 
he had suggested, he thought it was best for the members of the 
Conference to divide themselves up amongst these sections, so that 
each member could attend for the items in which he was chiefly 
interested. He did not consider it possible to draw up a comprehen- 
sive programme of work for the whole Conference, owing to the large 
number of items which had been suggested for the agenda and owing 
to the impossibility. of foreseeing how much time would be taken by 
the various items. 
A programme for the first two days had already been circulated by 
the Secretary, which he thought should be adopted; for subsequent 
days it appeared best for the Chairmen of the three sections, after 
they had seen how they progressed with their preliminary work, to 
draw up their programmes for each day, arranging, when necessary, 
joint meetings of two sections. 
As regards the records of the proceedings, he thought it would as 
a general rule be better that full stenographic notes should not be 
taken, but that Secretaries, including the Technical Secretaries who 
were being provided for the separate sections, should take notes and 
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