AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 11

AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL

NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] I WELLINGTON, April 20. The Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) today sent a cable message to the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia (Mr. .1. A. Lyons) accepting tint Commonwealth Government’s invitation for New Zealand to be represented by a Minister at rhe meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, which will open in Canberra on May 12. The New Zealand representative will be the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. W. Lee Martin), who will be accompanied by the Director-General of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. Cockayne, 1.5.0.) and the Minister’s private secretary (Mr. W. R. King). The Minister and party will leave for Sydney by the Aorangi from Auckland on May 2. The Cou'ncil of Agriculture is representative of all the state Ministers for Agriculture and the appropriate Federal Ministers. In his invitation, the Australian Prime Minister said that his Government hoped that ad-

vantage would be taken at this meeting to exchange views in the primary industries of Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Cockayne will be the New Zealand Government’s representative on the Standing Committee of the Agricultural Committee of Technical Experts, which will meet in Canberra on May 10 and 11. Mr. Lee Martin will return to New Zealand on the Awatea. leaving Sydney on May 23.