“Mr McLeod has always been a prominent farming man, and a prominent Farmers’,Union man, and we are well satisfied, to see such a man as our Minister for Lauds,” said Mr W. J. Polwon, president of the Now Zealand Farmers Union at the annual conference in Wellington. “1 think a certain amount of wholesome neglect of the ordinary boy in school is not a bad thing, ’ declared Processor John Adams in the co urn 3 of an informative lecture at Auckland, before a record attendance of representatives of education. “As for really stupid people, 1 do not know why we do not allow them to be stup.' l in their own way.” “Whenever a new industry is to be established we find that it asks for a protective tariff until it is properly established,” said Mr. A. A. Ross at the Farmers’ Convention at Wellington on Thursday. “But do you ever remember a case when such an industry has admitted that it was properly established aud could do without the tariff? The cry is always for a higher tariff. ’ ’
“By the end of this present planting season the State plantations will cover 60,500 acres. This year the service is planting 8500 acres, which is over five times the average of the years before the establishment of the Forest Service,” said Captain Macintosh Ellis to the Dominion Farmers’ Convention on Thursday evening. “In five years as large an acreage of plantations has been established as would have taken 14 years under the old regime.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 197, 29 July 1924, Page 6
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