FARMERS' UNION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 15

FARMERS' UNION.

DOMINION CONFERENCE. (run AsaocuTiov rxxateruc.) "WELLINGTON, July 23. The Farmers' Union Conference resolved that the Government ta recommended to pass a Bill as proposed by the Agricultural Department, provided a proviso is inserted to ensure that a purchaser is supplied on tho analysis certificate with a statement of tho origin of the materials „as set out in Section 3 Subsection 3, paragraph (c) of tlio proposed Bill. A committee was appointed to give evidence before a committee of tho House. A motion was carried urging the Government to introduce legislation giving power for the setting-up of hoards for tho eradication and prevention of tho 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Bill protecting farmers against impure and sterile seeds, and that the Agricultural Implement and Sales Act should -ho repealed. Professor Pcren, Victoria. College, outlined tho course of agricultural education proposed to be given at Victoria College. Dr. C. J. Reakes. Director-General of the Department of Agriculture, and Dr. A. H. Cockayne, "Director of the Fields Division, outlined the assistance and information being given . bv_ the Department to fanners in connexion with various agricultural operations. An address on tho activities of the Dairy Division of th© Department of Agriculture was delivered by Mr \V. M. Singleton. l>iioctor of tho' Division. It was agre«l that the Government should be urged to establish a dairy school ivnd laboratory, with a view io the carrying-on of research work and tuition of tho dairy factory managers, and assistants: in connexion therewith. It was also resolved that the Government be urged to have brought into force regulations, which have been drafted and approved under the Dairy Industry Amendment Act, with a view. to arriving at a uniform method of j reading the Babcccli test. It was decided that the Government b© requested to set aside a sum with a .'view to experimenting .on the best and most effective means of eradicating gorse. 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 weteds 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 for representation of agriculture. . j That efforts bo made to have the training work, being carried on at'Rua•lhlra and other, experimental farms extended. That the Education Department be j asked at once to systematise'agricultural instruction from primniy schools right to he universiy,-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 precaution aiy mea.sures. .• ■ The election, -of 'officers- resulted:— President, Mr Poison; vice-presidents, Messrs .Mumey (Otago), Duxfield '"(Auckland), and Matheson (Eketahuna); North Island advisory committee, Messrs Ross (AucJcland), Marslia.ll ;Marton), Livingston (Dannevirke); 'South Island advisory committer, . Messrs Cameron (North Otago), Dic-kie (Southland), and Mulholland . (o"u\fcerbury). Mr Chadwick (Dannevirke) was ' elected treasurer. -