SEED TESTING
Canterbury Wants Station
(By Telegraph.’■’Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCTI. September 28. The Minister of Agriculture, ‘Mr. Barclay, has been asked by the South Island Development Committee of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association to take immediate steps to Ijave the Government seed testing station, Palmerston North, moved to Canterbury. In its letter to the Minister, copies of which have been sent to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Supply, Mr. Sullivan, the committee says: “It has been brought to our notice that the Government seed testing station is located in rented premises in a commercial building in Palmerston North. This is reahy amazing in view of the fact that 90.9 u per cent, of all seeds acreage is in the South Island and of this quantity 54.9 per cent, is in Canterbury. The figures are taken from the statistical report ot the agricultural and pastoral production, of the Dominion for the season 13-11-IL.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 September 1943, Page 4
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152SEED TESTING Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 September 1943, Page 4
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