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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