STIMULATING ENGLISH DEMAND

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 7

STIMULATING ENGLISH DEMAND

GRASSLAND CONFERENCE’S RECOMMENDATION

For thy purpose of demonstrating the _ value of New Zealand seeds in- Gr-eat Britain the annual meeting of the Now Zealand Grassland Association adopted a resolution recommending the Government to send Mr E. Brace Levy, of the Plant Research Station at Palmerston North, to England for a year.' Mr J. T. Martin moved the following motion:

“That it he a recommendation from this conference of the New Zoalamvl Grassland Association to the Government that Mr E. Bruce -Levy be sent to England Ito- demonstrate

the qualities of New Zealand strain® of pasture -seeds in relation to the possibility of their use itn. England.”

“Mv reason for moving this motion iS that I am confident that we shall! not h-i\ e airy success in introducing -new strains of seed into- England or the Ur.,ied States until the leading scien-i-nc men in these countries underotand tli it we have a sound and va-luabEpro-dsaid Mr Martin.. “I belie vi the Go' (in,meut would bei doiing the co nury a rood turn if it sent Mr Brace Levy to England for a year for thife purpose. Mr G. H. Holfoid seconded the

Mr 0. H. Hewlett said he believed U.a’ i-o man in New Zealand had yet sultuiiut info.rma.tiom about New Zca-ia:.-l grasses to be. able to put them on the English .market. Ho behoved thalt the collection- of further evidence to convince oversea® buyers was nee es-

LACK OF information

“It is no good sending a man not propertv equipped to England,” he ear . “He must be able to produce figures of the actual productivity m pound® of meat to convince th-e buyers. There is a great deal more work to be done before such information will be m our possession. Ido not believe that there is a man in New Zealand to-day - fici'eii'tly well equipped for that purP °Mr” Hewlett added that nothing should be done without the eo-opera-tion of the seed trade. Mr A W. Hudson (thought Mr Hewlett was unduly pessimistic If only the people of England could be persuaded to try New ZeaW seeds those seed's would sell themselves. s Dr F W. HilgendOrf strongly supported the suggestion -to senbMr Levy to England, but he considered that he ,should not go as a eomm-ercial He should -go as a scientist to t«t vaihic of the Dominion s seed® in En*, At this -stage th-e meeting went into ■committee on th-e motion, of mau (Dr. E. Marsden), a-nd after fur tiver discussion it resumed to carry the resolution’ without opposition. • _