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Kenya that it has already helped us in a practical way. We are 
looking forward very much to the further help it will give us and we 
are most anxious to co-operate with it in every way so far as our means 
will permit. I think I am speaking on behalf of all representatives 
here when I say we look forward to the reconstitution and 
reorganisation of Amani. It is now in the hands of the Secretary of 
State and I hope it will be brought to life again and expanded before: 
very long. 
I must not keep you by talking too long and will end by telling 
you again that Kenya is very proud to have this Conference held here 
and hopes that the arrangements made for your comfort and 
convenience are agreeable to you. There is no doubt that this. 
Conference will be a thing of pleasure and profit to us. We also hope 
it will be a thing of pleasure and profit to you delegates who have 
come from such great distances and also to the great scientific 
movement which you represent. (Applause.) 
A vote of thanks to His Excellency was moved by Mr. Fuller 
(Union of South Africa) and seconded by Cav. L. Bicchieri, Royal 
Italian Consul. 
Mr. FULLER: 
On behalf of the delegates of this important Conference, and 
particularly for those amongst us from the Dominion of South Africa, 
I desire to thank you, Sir, for the very kind and warm welcome you 
have extended to us. Most especially, Sir, have I to thank you for 
the encouraging words with which you have set us to our various. 
tasks and for your clear and helpful exposition of the duties that lie 
before us. . 
I feel sure this Conference will mark another milestone in the 
progress of Africa—Africa the great, the wonderful, but no longer the 
dark—another step, Sir, in the conquest of its wilds and its ills by the 
sons of Europe. 
The honour of making this opening reply to your Excellency ’s 
welcome I gladly accepted on behalf of South Africa—South Africa 
whose future and destiny rests in safety upon that sure foundation— 
the love of the land by its farmers, be they Britain or Boer. We 
South Africans are all inordinately proud of the progress our 
community has made in the development of its agricultural resources. 
We point to it with pride and we tell one another and the world that 
with us agriculture has progressed by leaps and bounds. But how, 
Sir, shall I describe the amazing progress of agriculture in Kenya 
Colony? To me, at least, its progress in this glorious country has 
been phenomenal. 
Many people have been so good as to refer in eulogistic terms to 
the strength and the organisation of the Agricultural Department of 
the Southern Dominion. I accept what they say ‘‘ ‘to the foot of the 
letter.”” Our Agricultural Department is what it is, and its influence. 
throughout our land is what it is, because of the courage and prevision 
of one or two men, and one of these men is to be found to-day 
presiding over and directing the agricultural destiny of Kenya. 
On behalf of all the delegates attending this Conference, but 
especially on behalf of those representing British Territories, I thank 
you, Sir, for your very kind welcome to us, and I ask the Cavalieri 
Bicchieri to add a few words on behalf of the delegates from other 
Territories. 
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