THE PARIS CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 144, 12 March 1908, Page 2

THE PARIS CONGRESS.

NEW.ZEALAND WILL EE REPRESENTED.^ .' BY.WHOM? '.r... ... Cabmoi's dOTHonJart'iiighfc that/New,Za* . • lancl-should : bo . represented at the Refrigera- ... .tion to bo,. held.. in, Paris, under ,■■■ - I'Tonch Government.' patronage . next' June,.,., will cause no .surprise:. xThe Pasteur' Insfci- . tute and'niany-otiieri'world-famed schools of , scientific, research .will be>represented at this'_*■ great gathering,-; and, the,.-,utterances of the ■ various 6peakers,"must;.iiievitably-.be tiill'.of ' -information. it'is hoped that the; observa- h . ■tions -or '.those : most cjosely-j-asscciated iwith «.ew■ Zealand s-. ,frcezinga':w-orjis, will- be-, com*' pued-mto a paper/ to be read' at'the Pongre-ss;, but no special' researches. have. been' insti-- V at r ™ purpose. ' "v ' ' -Neil Zealand apparently .'may ..benefit rem. Representation, in v. two ways. i a mere ■ fact of -our • repre- ' sontation- will, announce ' our exisi-enccv in t,!O world , of. freeing. (2).. The ■ information'' to be gained" fr'pm jthe. deliberations. of ■ t)iis : ■ gathering of . great meii should :have;>a cash - • equivalent. for- New. Zealand's industry;".': But 1 that cash"'equiyalent,'' ( can only. be-secured-ha™e at 1 tho Congijess - table a- man' who will come back to-us . to' transfer to our pooplo jho.knowledge hohas obtained. j-iWe 'know'of ■ only two-men answeringuthat description, who ' are at present bound for-'the-Northern'Hitni-.sphere. They . are -Mr. .Reakes; (our assistant .chief veterinarian) and Mi\ Cuddie, our;dairy" commissioner. Both are officially interested ui : the. art, and effects; of the froezing-.of .food ~ n ' products, &nd^'We 1 -thinbj;that,-.frheh-the name of-i the repres^itative'-..is. announced : it.->ican-'. not: be. £thenvis6i.tlian. thftt 6ne or: both -of > : ~thqSe gentlemen .will -bo labelled,-for Paris-' 1 .Mr.; John Cooke, of/Messrs...John Cooke ; and Co., is "(as recently announced in The -• - Dominion)/already!;appointed sole;represents-■ ' 'tirfi. of,-the Commonwealth;.of; Australia.