VISITS TO EXPERIMENT FARMS.
V ■!;■■■' NO. CHEA^FAEES. Farmers' Union meetings nave on various [occasions urged that cheap fares should be arranged for. parties'of farmers'.visiting the Government, experiment farms,' and the" question was. raised '-again at the-last Wel:lington Provincial Conference. ~Mr. E. C. Jack, the Dominion secretary-of» ; the union,, wrote lately oh the subject'.,.to > the'.' Prime' Minister, anda reply has now been received from the Minister for Agriculture as follows: • ■'Sir,—With reference to your'" letter of December addressed'. ;.to'' the' Right HonU the Prime Minister,; I have tie honour to inform you that the "Railway Department,, after fully'considering the matter, is unable to give any special concession iri> regard to trains conveying .parties to. this Department's experiment the honour-to be, etc. (signed) THOMAS MACKENZIE,. "Minister for Agriculture:"
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 563, 19 July 1909, Page 10
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126VISITS TO EXPERIMENT FARMS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 563, 19 July 1909, Page 10
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