Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-115043

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Title:: Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Opening speeches, agenda and programme

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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 0

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