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 II. Agriculture

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29 PART II. AGRICULTURE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The normal constitution of the Agricultural Section was as follows : Mr. Alex. Holm (Chairman)..... Director of Agriculture, Kenya. Mons. Van den Abeele............. Agricultural Officer, Belgian Congo. Mr. V. A. Beckley............... Agricultural Chemist, Kenya. Cavalieri Bicchieri................. Royal Italian Consul, representing Italian Somaliland. Mr. G. J. L. Burton................Plant Breeder, Kenya. Mr. A. H. Kirby.................... Director of Agriculture, Tanganyika. Mr. V. H. Kirkham................. Director of Agriculture, Zanzibar. Mr. T. D. Maitland................. Botanist, Uganda. Capt. ¥. J. Sheedy................. Acting Chief Veterinary Officer, Tanganyika. Mr. S. Simpson......................Director of Agriculture, Uganda. Mr. A. D. le Poer Trench.........Coffee Officer, Kenya. Mr. E. J. Wortley................... Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland. Technical Secretary ... Mr. V. A. Beckley. Mr. A. Walter, Statistician to the Governors’ Conference; Colonel A. G. Doherty, Chief Veterinary Officer, Kenya; Colonel R. B. Turner, Trade Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, also attended for discussions on certain items. THE CHAIRMAN (Mr. Holm): ‘* Gentlemen, before proceeding with the business of the Conference may I express to you, not only officially but personally, a welcome to Kenya and to the Offices of the Department of Agriculture. In ordinary circumstances, I should have wished to have prepared an address for this Section of the Conference, but it was not known until recently what were the arrangements for the Chairmanship of the various sections, and I hope under the circumstances that you will be disposed to regard the paper* which I read before the General Conference yesterday on Agriculture in Kenya ’ as one appropriate for this Section. If there is anything contained in that paper which any member of this Section would wish to question before the Conference, I should be glad if you would do so, and I will deal with it to the best of my ability. ** With these preliminary remarks, I think we might ascertain the wishes of members with regard to the procedure of this Section. You will remember the President’s remarks yesterday on the way he suggested the Conference should be conducted and which were generally accepted. I should explain that a few of us got together with a view to making tentative arrangements with regard to the business of the proceedings, and we came to the conclusion that each Section had better start to-day with those specific subjects which are peculiar to it and that later on joint and general meetings should take place. We came to the conclusion that, where certain subjects were to be discussed, two Sections should be combined; for example, Cotton and Agriculture, or Cotton and Entomology and Mycology, or again Agriculture with Entomology and Mycology. That is the way in * For text see Part V., Chapter I.

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