ROYAL SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 145, 22 June 1933, Page 5

ROYAL SOCIETY.

AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS

OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Wednesday

At the annual conference of the Royal Agricultural Society to-day the followin"* remits were carried: I hat as ability to" pay is one of the main canons of taxation, the present land tax be. replaced by income tax. That unoccupied native and Crown lands be given rent free for a term of years to anyone undertaking to keep such lands free from noxious weeds and rabbits.

Mr. H. B. Stuckey (Dannevirkc) moved I a resolution that while advocating reduced Departmental expenditure, the conference felt that it would be false economy to •curtail entomological research at the Cawthron Institute through a shortage of funds. Mr. Stuckey said the longer such work was put off, the longer the country would have to wait I for remedies. The institute was doing research work which was absolutely necessary. The resolution was carried. A remit from Marlborough, that no importation of stock to New Zealand should be allowed from any country where foot-and-moutli disease had been known to exist during a period of two years preceding the date of such proposed importation, was defeated. The election of officer., resulted: President, Mr. L. R. C. Macfarlane; vicepresidents, Professor I\. E. Alexander, Mr. S. Austin Carr; treasurer, Sir William Hunt; council, Messrs. W. E. A. Gill (Wellington), A. Hunter (Hawera), J. Linklater, M.P. (Palinerston North), W. W. Massey, M.P. (Auckland),* J. Edwards (Gore), G. Ross (North Otago), A. M. Weir (Southland), A. F. Hawke (Invercargill).