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suivie d’une discussion. Le Comitć d’organisation fixera la datę ultimę de remise des textes des contributions aux dis-cussions ainsi que leur etendue. Elles seront publiees dans les comptes-rendus.

Rcports shall be followed by discussion. The Organizing Committee shall fix the ultimate datę up to which the tcxt of these discussions are to be sent as well as their size. The discussions shall be published in the finał volume of the Proceedings.

VI. Versement des cotisations

18° Toute Societe Nationale qui n’a pas paye sa cotisation depuis plus de 12 mois n'a plus droit a recevoir la Listę des Membres.

Elle perd egalement le benefice de tous renseignements et services et ne peut participer a aucun vote.

VI. Payment of Contributions

(18) Any National Society which has not paid its contri-bution for morę than 12 months shall cease to receive the List of Mcmbers. It shall also be deprived of the advantages of any information or service and shall not be permitted to vote.

VII. Amendements aux presents statuts

19° Les statuts ne peuvent etre modifies que par le Comitć Executif.

VII. Amendments to the Present Statutes

(19) The Statutes can be amended by the Executive Committee only.

Le President : Now Dr Rao wishes to make a proposal.

Point 5 — Proposition concernant une reunion du Comitć

Executif dans deux ans.

M. K. L. Rao : My only reason for suggesting that a meeting of the Executive Committee should be held in two years’ time is to ensure that the work of the sub-committees may be expedited, and not have to wait four years. Also it would give a chance — we are 40 nations in this Conference — to the smaller nations to have the presence of a large number of experts, the members of the Committee, in their country, and that would be of help. This is the practice in the Congress on Large Dams and it has worked very well, and that is why I thought it might be useful if we could do it also.

The proposal is for a meeting of the Executive Committee, one session, between the Conference sessions.

Le President : This is an excellent proposal in principle but I think that the financial difficulties would be very great. It would cost perhaps £ 2,000, unless the whole of the Ex-ecutive Committee were able to finance themselves, to get to such a meeting. Many of us are not in a position to receive substantial grants to come to a meeting of this kind, and I think that this might raise great difficulties. But I think on this point I would welcome one or two comments from the floor.

M. B. A. Kantey (Afrique du Sud) : Could this not be overcome by correspondence — close liaison between the Vice-Presidents?

Le President : It is a good point. It is provided for in the Statutes, but I do not think we have madę enough use of it.

M. Bolognesi (Argentine) : I would agree with your suggestion, because it is morę or less becoming a generał practice to have every year between the International Confer-ences regional conferences, and I think for most of us that is as much time as we can dedicate to the Society. I think the way now established is satisfactory. For that reason I think that, although in theory this is an excellent idea, because of the time we must dedicate to be able to attend, this practice as we have it now is all right.

Le President : Is that the generał feeling? I think it is. So we willcarry on as wearedoing. I quite agree with Mr Bo-lognesi’s comment. If we are not careful we shall bespending all our time in conferences and not doing any work. But I think we might well havc morę correspondence. May we see how that works out?

(Proposition cidoptee.)

Point 6 — Proposition visant a ce que le siege des futures

Conferences soit choisi a tour de role dans les divers continents

M. K. L. Rao : The particular resolution I make herc is that the President should be entrusted to prepare proposals, and place them before the next Executive Committee meeting, for rotation of the continents in which these Conferences may be held, having due regard to Europę and America, because they are the places where the largest number of countries are engaged in this and have the largest number of members. But I wanted this to enable us to avoid this discussion about the place at every meeting. The President will be requested to draw up a suggested rotation of the several continents in which the Conference will be held. We start with Europę, then Asia, then again Europę. And the place we choose in Asia depends on the number of invit-ations that are received, and it will be decided when its turn comes.

Le President : I am going to throw this point open for discussion at once.

M. O. Moretto : I have the feeling that with the Conference growing as it is growing now we may have just one invitation, if we do get one, for the next one. So we are not in a position to say “ The next Conference we will have in Asia” — or “ in Africa ”, and so on; we will havc to wait to get somebody to invite us.

Le President : I think that is an extremely practical view. At the previous meeting of this Committee I did indicate, in the strongest way I was able, that there can be no question at all that the one succeeding the Canadian Conference should be in what I cali the " Eastem ” part of the world — that is, Australia and the East — and this was very generally agreed. We could perhaps leave it to the good sense, the sense of justice, of the Executive Committee to see that some sort of circulation of the type Dr Rao is wanting will in fact take place.

I find myself in complete sympathy with Mr Moretto. We may not be able to lay down as a rigid rule some pre-determined sequence of rotation. Undoubtedly the task of organising these Conferences is growing and I think that

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