WERE THEY FORGOTTEN?

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 10

WERE THEY FORGOTTEN?

&-Tv^:-'#? : ?:pfiJY. ":'■'■;'■'-'.■■ r::^:r'~. ■ %■:■':' '■'■ The ; ;fpr ■ Agriculture; lias recently vrritten to various'ogricultural.nssociations, inviting them, to, apppin_t,;representatives ,to ; bring bef;pre. jtomVany. , questionsi.that :rii ay -from time: r to time"require", his; attention.; , ; Jn taking .this step.'vthe.'Mihistw /seems, unconsciously, ;per■hapsj.'to have quite ignored , fhe'.eisisteace of a 'committee appointed lo perform:duties of that kind; by- the.-, very,: representative' conference of agricultural •associations 'recently.-! hold in Wel:,lington'.>:n'Qnc.ifof..those.;.duties:Was..to.bring ber fore vthe: Government -of the conference, as, expressed in resolutibns, and: it was understood .that the committeis would continue .to "act -on/similav; lines, , drawing the' , attention of;thb -Department to, such matters iavmieht, ; frbm,v .timp.,to ■ .time, seem"" necessary; ■' This 'coriimitteo'consisted of? ■ Messrs.' : D. D. JfacfarlaneV(Christchurch),. J. G. Wilson (Bulls),' ,T.G.?Riitherford,iand R.-Bick (Auckland), J. •Epberts :(Duriedin)j P. Patullo (Duneilin), who is mi "'tho-Highlanil'.Agricultural Society,.; and: ; ETren..,O'ampboll (\Vttnsauui).