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AGRICTLTURAL DEPARTMENT. (BX TELEGRAPH--PWEss ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. Economy in the working of the Agricultural Department was condemned by Mr R. Masters (Stratford) in the House to-night. He said there had been departments in which economy had been most ill-judged, and one of the least justified of these was the reduction in the Agricultural Department. Mr Masters said this should be the strongest department in New Zealand at the present time, but it lacked enterprise, it lacked spirit, and it lacked vim and life because it was starved. Competition, and severe competition, was coming from the Argentine, and if we were to retain our position on the London market the Agricultural Department must he kept right up to date. We required science laboratories and agricultural education, and he urged the Minister to fight for his department to keep it abreast of the times.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 August 1924, Page 5
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