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14. Advertisements were inserted in the Vernacular newspapers to the
effect that students from any district of the Presidency were eligible on the
recommendation of the Collector to compete for the vacant scholarships, and
all Collectors were addressed inviting them to recommend suitable students from
their districts for the scholarships.
15. A proposal that there should he 21 scholarships of Rs. 15 per mensem
each, instead of 15 scholarships of Rs. 10 each as at present, and that the scholar-
ships should be offered to men who have passed the Matriculation or School
Pinal Examination, with a reservation giving discretionary power to the Principal
in special cases to award a scholarship to a man who has not passed one of these
tests, has been sanctioned and will come into force from January 1908.
TRAINING OF SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT DRIVERS.
16. Forty-seven bullock drivers from the Supply and Transport Depart-
ment of the Bombay and Madras Presidencies attended a course of training as
dressers during the three months' vacation of the College. All of these men
were at the end of the course considered competent to perform the work of
dressers. The Principal having represented in his letter No. 671, dated the
30th June 1906, that the location of these transport drivers in the compound of
the College while they undergo training causes serious inconvenience, it has
been arranged to accommodate them in the Bori Bandar lines from the next year
(vide Government Resolution, Educational Department, No. 441, dated the 1st
March 1907).
FARRIERS' CLASS.
17. Under the orders of Government contained in Government Resolution,
Educational Department, No. 220, dated the 80th January 1907, the proposal to
institute a Farners' Class at the College was abandoned as it was found on
enquiries made by the Principal that adequate use is not likely to be made of
the class by the Civil "and Military Authorities and the General Public.
EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATES,
18. Sixteen students passed the Diploma Examination in December last.
Of these, 6 are employed by District Local Boards on temporary rinderpest
inoculation duty, 1 has been placed in charge of the District Veterinary
Dispensary, Panch Mahals, which has been opened during this year, 2 have
been appointed as Assistant Veterinary Officers at the College, 1 is employed
in the Janjira State and 2 have become Private Practitioners,
19. One Graduate of the last year (December 1905) obtained an appoint-
ment as Veterinary Inspector in the Province of Wellesley (Ponang) on a salary
of Rs. 960 per annum rising to Rs. 1,440 per annum.
20. During this year Veterinary Dispensaries were opened by the Local
Boards of the Ahmednagar, Sholapur and Bijapur Districts and Graduates of
previous years were appointed to take charge of them.
21. The Kurla Municipality has engaged the half time services of a
Graduate to supervise the Markets and Slaughter Houses at Kurla and a
Graduate has been selected for the appointment of Veterinary Inspector in the
State of Negri Sembilan of the Federated Malay States on a salary of
£ 130—10—200 per annum. The man appointed at Kurla graduated in De-
cember 1905, while that selected for Negri Sembilan graduated in December
1906.
22. Three appointments of Veterinary Assistants at Port Blair on salaries of
Rs. 60—3—75, Rs. 75—3—90 and Rs. 90—6-120, respectively, three appoint-
ments of Veterinary Assistants in the Surma Valley, Cachar, on Rs. 50 each, one
appointment as Slaughter- House Inspector, Poona Cantonment Municipality,
one appointment on Rs. 80 under the Sibsagar Local Board and one on Rs. 100
under the Sylhet Local Board were offered to unemployed Graduates, but were
not accepted by any of them. The Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Depart-