The promotion of agriculture in the district. No formal date for the establishment or abolition of the Board can be found. The Council of Agriculture Act 1891 (55 Vict. No. 43) created a Council of Agriculture as a fore-runner of the Department of Agriculture. A schedule to the Act listed local agricultural associations and societies which were to be branches of the Council. The Department of Agriculture Act 1897 (61 Vict. No. 7) which came into force 1 January 1898 reconstituted the Council and Boards. This Act was amended in 1902. The Department of Agriculture Repeal Act 1909 (9Edw. VII No. 46) abolished the Council. Some Boards continued to function as local voluntary bodies until 1927 when they amalgamated with the newly established Tasmanian Bureau of Agriculture, a private organisation. The Clarence Board of Agriculture is not mentioned in the Schedules of the 1891 or 1897 Acts (there was no schedule in the 1902 Act) nor can any gazettal be found proclaiming it a Board. It was certainly in operation by 1907 when one of its members published an article on spraying fruit trees in the Hobart Mercury and it became a branch of the Tasmanian Bureau of Agriculture in 1927. It is not known when the Board/Branch ceased to function.~