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Appendix 'B' (contd.).

Chairman, Official members:
18. The General Agricultural Council*.

The Director o[ Agriculture and Fisheries.

The Deputy Director of Agriculture and Fisheries.

The Economic Adviser.

The Registrar of Cooperative Societies.

The following persons appointed by the High Commissioner:

Mr. A. P. S. Clark, M.B.E.

Mr. Nicola Gelat. Jamil Elf. Shawe.

Abdul Rahim Eff. Nabulsi, M.B.E. Sheikh Hussein Elf. Abu Sitteh. Professor E. Volcani, M.B.E.

Mr. FI. Viteles.

Mr. FI. Wolfson.

Dr. I. Kligler.

M1-. D. Stern.

Mr. M. Smilansky, M.B.E.

The Council was first appointed by the High Commissioner in December, 1941.

Non-official members :

The function of the Council is to act in an advisory and consultative capacity to Government in matters appertaining to agriculture in all its aspects and to examine and report upon all bills referred to it by Government prior to their being referred to the Advisory Council; and to recommend to Government the enactment of legislation specifically affecting agriculture.

The Council has not met since August, 1942, largely owing to the fact that its functions have been assumed by the wartime departments and their advisory bodies and by the War Economic Advisory Council.

19. The General Claims Tribunal.

Joint

chairmen: Mr. E. Mills, C.B.E., Commissioner for Migration

Mr. G. H. Webster, O.M.G., 0.B.E., formerly Postmaster General.

Members: The Assistant Quartermaster General.

The Deputy Assistant Director, Hirings, British

Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.

The Government Statistician. A Senior Agricultural Officer.

The Chief Storekeeper, Public Works Department.

The function of the tribunal is to determine disputes as to compensation payable for action taken in exercise of emergency powers in the case of

(a} any land of which possession has been taken on behalf of His Majesty, or
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* Vide page 387.

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