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BRITISH GUIANA SECOND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ' !

FIRST SES SI ON 1957 MINUTES of the Proceeding s of a Meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council of the Colony of British Guiana under the Brit ish Guiana (Constitution)(Temporary Provisions) Chamber of the Legislature at the Public Buildings, Georgetovm, Demerara, Orders in Council, 1953 and 1956, held in the AT 2.00 P.M. on Wr.

::DNESDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1957.

PRESENT: -Dr. C.B.

Jagan.

-.Mr.

Ram Karran.

Secretary, Mr. F.W.


Essex -Chairman.

Hon.

Financial Hon.

Minis+9r of Trade and Industry Hon.

Minisver of Community Development and Education -Mr. B.H.

Benn.

of Natural Resources -Tu1r.

E.B.

Beharry.

Hon.

Minister of Labour, Health and Housing -.Mrs.

Janet Jagan.

Hon.

Minister and Works Hon.

Minister of Communications Mr. F. Bowman Mr. B.S.

Rai Mr. S .M.

Saffee Mr. W.O.R.

Kendall Mr. S. Campbell Wlr.

A.L.

Jackson Mr. Jai Narine Singh Mr. R.B.

Gajraj ll.lfr.
Gajraj ll.lfr.

R.C.

Tello Mr. R.E.

Davis Mr.

A.M. Fredericks Mr. H.J.M.

Hubbard tlfr.

A.G. Tasker, O.B.E.

with Mr. E.V.

Viapree, and Mr. E.D.

Ford, Principal Assistant Clerk of the Legislature, Clerk to the Committee, Assistant Secretary (Ag.

), Finance Secretariat.

Absent Mr. Ajodha Singh -on leave.

Mr. L.F.S.

Burnham • .. AGEND A Consideration of the Draft Estimates (Recurrent and Development) for 1958.

Mr. A.F.

Mackenzie, Director of Agriculture, was present throughout the Meeting.
Committee resumed consideration of HEAD 3 -AGRICUTirURE.

EXTRAORDINARY Subhead 28 -Horse Stud and Quarantine Station •• $16,308:- Committee deleted this subhead.

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• MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES Subhead 37 -Purchase of Equipment • • .

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$8,800:- Committee considered and approved of the.above subhead, subject to expe�diture purchase of Refrigerator Service Showcases being reserved pending the Committee being satisfied as to the necessity for these.

of the provision of $6,000: for the HEAD 3.


- AGRICULTURE was reduced by $162308:-(i.e.

EXTRAORDINARY - Subhead 28) and passed at $1, 689,976:- Committee also considered and approved of the following:- HEAD 31 -MISCELLANEOUS Amount Subhead 35 -Cost of investigations of insects affecting stored rice and paddy9 etc.

passed as printed .• $11,000:- Subhead 36 -Farm Youth Training in the U.S.A. passed as printed •• $ 3,600:- 33 -MISCELLANEOUS - SUBVENTIONS, etc.
OTHER TH.AN MUNICIPAL AGRICt"LTURAL Subhead 1 - Contributj_on to the Sugar Cane Investigation Cornmi ttee, Trinidad passed as printed •• $ 96:- ,._ Subhead 2 -Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux - passed as printed •• $ 6,394:- Subhead 3 -Rothanstead Experimental Station - Contribution to - passed as printed •• $ 58:- Subhead 4 -Annual grant to Imperial College of Tro pie al Agr icul tur e - passed as printed •• $12,504:- Subhead 5 -Recruitment and Training of Officers for Colonial Agricultu Departments - ral passed as printed •• $ 1:- The Director of Agriculture informed Members that three or four Officers would probably be recruited during 1958 under the Scheme for which this provision is made.
It was agreed that a realistic estimate should be inserted in the place of tbe token figure of $1: - Subhead 6 -Fishing Industry Development - passed as printed •• $20,000:- .

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1353 HEAD AMOUNT I -AGRICULTURE (DEVELOPMENT) - passed as printed ., $763,516:- The Meeting terminated at 6.10 p.m.

Confirmed, Chairman, Finance Committee.

Assistant Clerk of the Legis Ja ture, Clerk to the Committee.