AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association-) WELLINGTON, this day. The Agricultural Conference to-day passed the following resolutions: "That Government be asked to establish the plant for a breeding and experimental farm in the, South Island; that where land of suitable nature and conveniently situated is offered to the Agricultural Department for experimental purposes by any A. and P. Association, the Department be urged to subscribe to the same £ for £, and provide a superintendent; that the Government be asked to take active steps to keep down noxious weeds on their own and native lands, and to offer further inducements for any efficient means of protection; that the conference views with alarm the rapid and general increase of rabbits through the waste and unoccupied lands of the North Island immediately adjoining the East Coast rabbit district, and urges the Department to insist on more complete means being taken to cope with the evident increase of the pest."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 194, 16 August 1911, Page 2
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