§ LIST OF MEMBERS
§ Chairman: Sir Sydney Caine. K.C.M.G. Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has served as Third Secretary in the Treasury and as Deputy Under Secretary of State in the Colonial Office and was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya. From 1949 to 1951 he headed the United Kingdom Treasury and Supply Delegation in Washington.
§ The following are the members of the Committee:
§ Professor D. S. Hendrie, B.Sc., N.D.A., N.D.D., is Principal of West of Scotland Agricultural College and Professor of Agriculture at Glasgow University, He was 404 formerly Agricultural Adviser to H.M. High Commissioner in New Zealand from 1949 to 1954, where he acquainted himself very fully with the New Zealand techniques of grassland and livestock husbandry.
§ Professor H. I. Moore, M.Sc., Ph.D., N.D.A., is Principal of Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, and is himself a grassland expert and attended the International Grassland Congress held in New Zealand.
§ W. J. Thomas, Esq., M.Sc., is Reader in Agricultural Economics at Manchester University and Provincial Agricultural Economist for the North West of England.
§ H. U. Cunningham, Esq., C.B.E., N.C., worked in the Fertiliser Directorate during the war and was until recently Managing Director and Chairman of Scottish Agricultural Industries: his knowledge of fertiliser questions will be invaluable to the Committee.
§ H. R. Humphries, Esq., C.B.E., was formerly a Director of British Oil and Cake Mills Ltd., and of Animal Feedingstuffs at the Ministry of Food from 1943 to 1953; his experience in these two capacities bears directly on the work of the Committee.
§ J. R. Muirie, Esq., B.A., C.A., is a Chartered Accountant and partner in the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. and as Assistant Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Food during the war had special experience of the administration of subsidies.
§ The Committee includes a practical farmer from each country in the United Kingdom with special reference to meat, milk and seeds.
§ A. G. Algeo, Esq., C.B.E.. J.P.Past President of the Ulster Farmers' Union and has a unique knowledge of farming conditions in Ulster.
§ J. R. Barron, Esq., who is a prominent grass, arable and dairy farmer in Brechin, Angus, and is well known as a pioneer in grassland management.
§ R. Chapman, Esq., who farms in Monmouthshire, and has a dairy herd of pedigree Guernseys.
§ J. Rowsell, Esq., who farms in Hampshire and has particular knowledge of herbage seeds.
§ LORD FORBESMy Lords, will the noble Lord state if the Grassland Utilisation Committee will be encouraged to report their recommendations for the economic development of hill grazing, in view of the fact that in the past hill grazings have cost up to £80 an acre to develop and this has been entirely uneconomic?
§ LORD CHESHAMMy Lords, as I understand the matter, the Committee will be encouraged to produce their views on grassland utilisation in all its aspects.