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 comprehensive
 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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