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 69O the work of Settlement officers to criticism by persons who bad no experience of the fcts. He &leo said th&t Kanam could not be t&ken &s & district typie&l o! &ny p&rt of the Bombay ?residency. ?OFRS80R JROH8 said th&t he thought misunderstood Professor Kle, &nd th&t the mean th&t non-ofiicls should merely &ssist Officer in interpreting &nd deciding upen Mr. Kestinge latter did not the Settlement facts which he but rather that fully eluoidgting non-ofiioisl work and help to facts. There this direction. settle controversies by was ample scope for THE HON'BLE MR. LALLUBHAI SAMALl)AS thought th&t rural inquiries as proposed by lrofessor Kale should be undertaken either in conjunction with Government officers or wholly unofiiei&lly. One unofficial inquh. y with which he had been &ssoeited h&d unfortun&tely fizzled out. He could not say wh&t was the reason: it reasons. If &n unoikeial committee carry out rural economic inquiries he himself responsible for raising work. .. PROFESSOft BURNETT HUEST was aould h not for finaneisl be formed to willing to make necessary funds for its thought th&t it would be useless to attempt to esrry out sueh& rural inquiry without having some paid investigators giving their whole time o (the settlement offleer) had eollected alone, non-ofiiei&ls might be associated with the enquiry from the very beginning. Personally he saw no harm, and & pessible benefit, in showing two or three sdv&nee students of economies who had gained experienee in making inquiries to work with & settlement offleer if the later desired it. A very imperrant question whieh he wished to raise was the. purpese of the extensive surveys propesed by Professor Kale. If it was only to obtain &preeise seientifie knowledge of the faets, the great labor involved pessibly might be better expended. He strongly advocated that rural surveys should be speeifie&lly directed to the purpose of discovering what roads and other works were required to develope the eountry and how agrieulture eould be best improved. PROFESSOR $. C. COYAJEE thought it was not usual to sssoei&te private inquirers with offleers of Government e&rrying ou their ofiiei&l duties. Non-ofiieials interested in psrtieulsr eeonomie questions must hold independent inqufries, the