Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 313

pupils, and there is room in it for expansion to accommodate 150 pupils. An annexe has been added to the agricultural school for girls in Nahalal; and the training farms for girls in Talpioth, near Jerusalem, and in Ayanoth, near Ness-Ziona, have enlarged their scope. Especially marked is the growth of the agricultural school " Mikveh-Israel," which accommodates 230 pupils from abroad and from among the children of the new immigrants. The agricultural school for children in Mair-Shfejah has extended its plantation area and the area of its working fields. The Jewish agricultural school erected near Kfar-Tabor from the money bequeathed by the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie, has developed satisfactorily, and it promises to bring great benefit to the agricultural population, especially in Galilee and in the Emek. The Kfar Hanoar (youth's village) of Ben-Shemen has made further "progress and absorbed a fair number of German-Jewish boys. The cultural committee of the Histadruth Haovdim re-opened the Kfar Yeladim (children's village) in the Emek, and a district school has been opened in Givath-Shloshah, near Petach-Tikvah. 7. It must be pointed out with regret that most of the Jewish settlements suffer from a lack of transport facilities to the railways •or to the main roads. Many settlements in the Emek and in the Sharon are, during the rainy season, altogether isolated from centres of communication, and as a result incur heavy losses. The Government fails to take the measures necessary for finding and organising suitable markets abroad for Palestinian agricultural products, and for exempting Palestine products from import duties in the British market. The drawing-up of the Land Register is very dilatory, and the boundaries of Jewish landed property are constantly in danger of being overstepped by the neighbours and of threats of unfounded claims, which bring about litigation and cause unnecessary expense. Such conflicts have increased, especially since the promulgation of the Protection of Cultivators' Ordinance and land transfer restrictions. The Government is not paying adequate attention to hydrological research, especially in the uncultivated areas in the South, which could become populated by tens of thousands of agricultural families. Minor loans were granted by the Government to four settlements in the Emek for the purpose of prospecting for drinking water, and it also assisted Nahalal and Ramath-David by lending machinery for the boring of wells. The promulgation of the new agricultural tax law, which converts all taxes previously in force, based on an antiquated and inconvenient system, into one general tax, is bound to be of great benefit to the farmers. It is, however, to be regretted that the 313