INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 130, 1 December 1908, Page 5

INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE.

"A- WOULD PARLIAMENT." .. VICTORIAN AGENT-GENERAL >'•'">■' ": 'DISSENTS'. ■<- Press Assn-i-By telegraph— Copyright. ROME, last night. Tho general assembly : of the International Institute of Agriculture met at Rome, Signor. Tittoni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, presiding. He described it as the first session of- the Parliament of tho World. Mr J. W. Taverner, Agen>General for Victoria, expressed disappointment that the pfippfpsed organisation of the Institute waV "too continental in character and not sufficiently imbued with the methods and customs of English countries interested in the pastoral, agricultural and dairying industries, although their trade and commercial standing entitled them to recognition. He urged that the institute render 'practical aid to producers in enabling them to protect their interests. King Victor Emmanuel gave an audience, to the delegates.