CERTIFIED SEED GROWERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 256, 12 October 1932, Page 11

CERTIFIED SEED GROWERS

HAWKE’S BAY ASSOCIATION. MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the committee was held at the Chamber ol Commerce room, on the 7th inst., Mr. E. Wall being in the chair. Final arrangements for exhibit at the Spring Show were agreed to, including the attendance of individual members of the committee for both days.

Correspondence from several sources in the North Island asking for information in regard to next season’s crop were received, and the secretary was instructed to reply. The enquiries showed that there was likely to be a good demand for Hawke’s Bay seed in the coining season. As there has been some correspondence in Southland papers as to the unpalatability of ryegrass for stock, the secretary was instructed to forward particulars of the very high returns received by growers in this distict from fattening of lambs and sheep fed entirely on perennial ryegrass. The president pressed the fact that every seed-grower should become a member of the association for his own protection, and to show the grave necessity for a body to look after growers’ interests, it was pointed out that information had come from Australia that farmers had bought rye grass believing they were getting true type of Hawke's Bay-grown seed and, that they had as a matter of actual fact, an inferior type foisted upon them. For the protection of buyers in Australia, the Hawke’s Bay Association had sent to the Director of Agriculture for the Commonwealth Government a copy of the New Zealand Government’s certification marks for true perennial ryegrass, and asking that this information be published in the agricultural journals of the various States.