COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE,
The fifth annual conference of the New Zealand Council of Agriculture, otherwise the fifteenth New* Zealand conference of affiliated A. and, P. Breeders' Societies, opened to-day "in the new conference hall of . the Dominion Farmers' Institute. Mr. F. W. Williams (Pukehou) presided over an attendance of about 60 delegates^ from all parts of the Dominion.
The President apologised for the fact that owing to ill health he had not prepared any formal address. He dealt generally with the remits to be considered by conference, and made reference to the Imperial wool purchase. In this connection he congratulated growers on the purchase, and said that if tTie Imperial Government was able to sell what it did not require, and make 100 per cent, on it, they in New Zealand would have nothing to complain about. If the wool had not been purchased, he declared., the industry in the country would have been at a.' standstill owing to lack of' shipping facilities.
The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Agriculture, congratulated the farmers on their new building. The farming industry was a most important industry, providing as it did the greater proportion of the exportable products of the country. The Minister then delivered an interesting address, as reported elsewhere in this i6sue.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 15, 17 July 1918, Page 8
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