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 the Board of Examiners, besides being a Fellow, of the Madras University. He sat on the S.S.L.C. Board for the triennium 1916-18. He was called to give evidence before the Public Service Royal Commission in 1914. He was made responsible in 1918 for the formulation of a scheme of Moral Instruction in Secondary Schools. And he has served as Chairman of the Government Education Re-organisation Committee recently formed. Apart from these, he was a member of the Godavari District Board and the Vice-President of the Cocanada Taluk Board for 6 years, besides being in the local Municipal Council for several terms. He presided over the Kistna, Political and Social Conferences at Guntur in 1898, the Provincial Social Conference at Ranipet (North Arcot) in 1904, the Northern Circars Theistic Conference at Rajahmundry and the Kistna and Guntur Social Conferences at Narsaraopeta in 1905, the All-India Theistic Conference at Calcutta in 1906 (the Presidential Address of which appears in this volume), the Adi Dravida Conference at Amalapuram and the Anti-Non-