DEPARTMENTAL MOVEMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 February 1908, Page 3

DEPARTMENTAL MOVEMENTS.

W. Kirk, biologist; Mr; : Bisset,';edit<jr!, of/publications -Singleton;dairy commissioner; ■; ohief-fVeteriiiariaii;' 'Mr..- Clifton, chief-' iri"; ; spec^brqf^stook.v',,. ■/In Auckland - District,/; Mr.' Bragato, ■ viticulturist'; •: Mr. 'Hyde,-; poultry, export; .'.Mr. Hopkins, apiarist: v> • i .'! " y: v i South.—Mr. .Jaques,, canning -expert; due back';ab'out;rebniary. 26. BoucherGovernment••nomologist'. for: . the' North Island,;> arrived in Wellington yesterdays •: > •:•.. , • Mr. Cockayne, -assistant!biologist,'.who has been. at.'Mastertomin'.charge of the biological '•■•". exhibit', at tho/show, to'; Wellington last night.': Mr. Brown; assistant poultry expert, arrived back from Moumahaki last night.: ; Tho Minister, .Hon. R. M'Nab, is at Hokitika, .whoro he.isvexpected'to remain for one or two days. ■ ■ .•- ■"• .... .1 he-Secretary for.Agriculture,. Mr. J., D. Ritchie, goes South' to-day, " : ,arid ■ will'; pro- 1 bably be back on Monday. Owing to a-lesseningf supply* of-milk, the Masterton butter" factory ,is now only .able'to : manufacture 'for (local..consumption, which runs into 6001b. a day.-. The (price of the " ' article has now, been'risen to Is. sd. per;lb., and many consumers are falling back upon farmers' home-madebutter,' which, is being sold.'cansiderably che.ipei. ; It is . very' probable, writes our Wairarapa correspondent, .-that aj nnmber of- "Wairarapa farmers .will. shortly ; viiiit rwith .... tho';object,of inspecting,'.various lands..-there e whiph;-: aro beirig offered for salo by. tho • Queensland Government. Other, farmers .in : 'V. North Island- are also investing: moneyland outsido; of New Zealand.- Thp;.wbole _.'uso' is sa'id:to be. an -objection' to much, of • e present experimental Government legislapn, which is regarded as unsettling to busi'ss in many ways...