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Field Secretary or probationer Cooperative Officer.
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The problem of Chinese rural cooperatives is certain to need very careful attention. One possibility (visualised by Mr. F. C. Gimson) is that Government should second a senior cadet to be Cooperative Officer; but I am not certain that that would be the best move at the present.
There is in the Hong Kong Government service, on a salary of approximately £300, a young man aged 24, Clifton Large. He speaks Cantonese more fluently than English and habitually thinks in Chinese; he also speaks Hakka. I should like to suggest for consideration that he be posted to my department as ? field secretary and that he should make a special study of cooperatives. It might be a good move for him to stop for a fortnight or month in India on his way back to Hong Kong and study cooperatives there; later he could study the cooperative movement in South China.
I propose to write to Miss Margaret Digby formerly of the Horace Plunkett Foundation (c/o. Mr. E. M. Chossudowsky, London Cooperative Society, Ltd., 34 Tavistock Square, W.C.1.) and also possibly to C. F. Strickland, for advice on producer cooperatives and on cooperative banks.
Problems.
Supplies of seeds, fertilizers, insecticides. Land Transport.
Utilization of Night Soil.
New Crops
sunflower, edible lupin, new species potato,
onion, etc.
Veterinary officer, New Territories and supplies rinderpest
serum.
III.
BOTANY FORESTRY
HORTICULTURE COMPLEX.
See Report of 1st February. (Mr. F. Flippance was born in
December, 1891.)
On my visit to Cambridge on 25th February I shall stay with E. J. H. Corner, Assistant Director, Singapore Botanical Gardens, and shall discuss problems with him.
At Leeds on 11th and 12th February saw members of the staff of the Botany Department.
Hong Kong Report: letter of 14th February received 23rd February from Father Ryan, acting head of the B. & F. Department, "I am concentrating on the agricultural side and on reafforestation. It is mostly preparatory work.
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IV.
NUTRITION.
See Report of 1st February.
Discussion with Dr. L. H. Lampitt, Director, Messrs. Lyons & Co. on 15th February.
Rowett Institute Aberdeen, 21st February p.m. all afternoon. Discussion with Dr. D. P. Cuthbertson, Director; Dr. I. Leach, Secretary of Nutrition Abstracts, and Dr. Burgess, Nutrition Doctor, Kuala Kangsar, Malaya, (old friend) in charge nutrition at Changi Camp. To meet Dr. Leach in London, possibly also Sir David Chadwick.
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