FARMERS' UNION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 26 July 1924, Page 7

FARMERS ' UNION

DOMINION CONFERENCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 20. The Farmers' Union Conference resolved that the Government be recommended to pass a Bill as proposed bv the Agricultural Department, provided a proviso is inserted to ensure that a purchaser is supplied on the analysis certificate with a statement as set out in section 3, Subsection 3, paragragh (c) of the proposed Bill. A committee was appointed to give evidence before a committee ot the House. . n . ,i n A motion was carried urging the Government to introduce legislation oiving power for the setting-up or boards for the eradication and prevention of the spread of blackberry. It was resolved that the Government be asked to pass a Bill protecting farmers against impure and sterile seeds, and that the Agricultural Implement and Sales Act should be repealed Professor Peren, Victoria College, outlined the course of agricultural education proposed to be given at Victoria College. Dr C. J. Brakes, DirectorGeneral of the Department of Agriculture, and Dr. A. H. Cockayne, Di-re-tor of the Fields Division, outlined the assistance and information being si ven by the Department to farmers in collection with various agricultural operations. . . . An address on the activities of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture was delivered by Mr \\. M Singleton, Director of the Division It was agreed that the Government should be urged to establish a dairy school and laboratory, with a view to the carrying-on of research work and tuition of the dairy factory managers and assistants in connection thereIt was also resolved that the Government be urged to have brought into force regulations, which have been drafted and approved under the JJany Industry Amendment Act, with a view to arriving at a uniform method of rer>' , '...:4 the Babcock test. -fc was decided that the Government be requested to set aside a sum with a view to experimenting on the best and most effective means of eradicating o-orse. An offer has been widely advertised, and a substantial reward, for the discovery of some specific means which can be applied at a reasonable cost, whereby the spread of these and other noxious weeds may be combated and the growths already existing destroyed, offered. . The conference carried remits recommending that the basis of election of members of the University Senate and University College Councils be broadened so as to make provision tor , representation of agriculture. That efforts be made to have the training work being carried on at Kuakura and other experimental farms exThat the Education Department be asked at once to systematise agricultural instruction from primary'schools right to the university, and that the matriculation examination be amended accordingly. , Dr Reakes said in regard to cattle tick and foot-and-mouth diseases that the Department had under consideration taking further precautionary measures. . , The election of officers resulted-: President, Mr Poison; vice-presidents, Messrs Murney (Otago), Duxneld (Auckland), and Matheson (Lketahuna); North Island advisory committee Messrs Ross (Auckland), Marshall (Marton), Livingston (Dannevirke) ; South Island advisory committee Messrs Cameron (North Otago), Dickie (Southland), and Mulholland . (Canterbury). Mr Chadwick (Danne- , virke) wa*s elected treasurer.