Administrative Order No. 304, August 5, 1959

DESIGNATING THE UNDERSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES, AS COORDINATOR OF THE INTER-DEPARTMENTAL ANTI-LOCUST CAMPAIGN IN MINDANAO

In accordance with the Decision of the Cabinet at its regular meeting on June 3, 1959, to intensify the anti-locust campaign of the Administration in Mindanao, and in order to coordinate all the locust campaign activities of the government all over the country, the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is hereby designated as Coordinator of all the Inter-Departmental Anti-Locust Campaign activities in Mindanao. As Coordinator, the Undersecretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to avail of the services of all the personnel, resources, and available facilities, such as vehicles, spraying equipment, etc., of the Departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Education, and National Defense in all locust-infested areas for the purpose of effectively waging the locust campaign.

In the implementation of this order, all the field personnel of the Departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Education, and National Defense, particularly those in Mindanao, are hereby directed to give full cooperation and support to the personnel of the Bureau of Plant Industry now waging the locust campaign in all the infested areas.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of Aug, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO

Executive Secretary