BRITISH PASTURE IMPROVEMENT
USE OF NEW ZEALAND SEEDS FAVOURED
“Fields of buttercups, bluebells, and dandelions are very attractive and enhance the beauty of the English countryside, but they do not feed or fatten stock,” said Mr E. T. Beaven in an interview. Mr Beaven, who is president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, returned to Christchurch this week after an absence of four months in Britain and America. Britain’s stock-carrying capacity could be greatly improved if her pastures were improved, Mr Beaven said.
When he arrived in Auckland he learned that Mr E. Bruce Levy, one of New Zealand’s foremost grasslands experts, and Mr R. B. Tennent, the assistant-Director of Agriculture, had just left for the United Kingdom. He hoped their discussions there would lead to an increase in the export of good New Zealand pasture seeds. “It is very obvious that this is wanted urgently in England,” he said, “and it is difficult to understand why the restriction was put on the importation of New Zealand seeds.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25580, 23 August 1948, Page 8
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