§ A Grant of £11,000 was made from the Development Fund in 1913 to the British Sugar Beet Growers' Society, a society registered as an association not trading for profit, to be applied solely to the work of organisation, instruction, and bookkeeping.
§ A loan of £130,125 has been made to the society for the purchase of the Kelham Estate in Nottinghamshire, and is secured upon mortgage of the estate. The estate is held upon trust, for the purpose of a sugar beet scheme, and is subject to the direction of the Treasury. In the meanwhile the estate is being used for food production by a Committee of the Board of Agriculture, acting in the name of the 'Society, and a loan of £40,000 for the purpose has been made to the Board from the Development Fund, repayable out of the profits realised from the working of the farm.
§ The names of the committee of management of the Society are as follow:
- Captain Sir Beville Stanier, Bt., M.P.
- Sir Ernest Jardine, Bt.
- Lord Bledisloe of Lydney.
- Major G. L. Courthope, M.C., M.P.
- Mr. S. F. Edge.
- Lieut.-Colonel Viscount Fielding, D.S.O., C.M.G.
- Mr. D. M. Horne.
- Mr. A. L. Jessop.
- Mr. E. Festus Kelly.
- Mr. F. French Kemp.
- Mr. V. A. Malcolmson.
- Mr. C. S. Orwin, M.A.
- The Earl of Selborne, K.G., G.C.M.G.
- Hon. L. Souchon, C.B.E.
- Sir Edward Stern, D.L.
- Hon. Edward Strutt, C.H.
- Mr. Hubert G. Alexander.
- Mr. J. L. Luddington.
- Principal M. J. R. Dunstan, C.B.E.
- Alderman W. E. Knight.
- Captain J. R. Starkey, M.P.