WESTLAND NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 5

WESTLAND NEWS.

CHAMBER OF -COMMERCE

MEETING.

[Peksh Association.]

WESTLAND, June 2. The Chamber of Commerce resolved, .in view of the paper shortage, to invite the Government' to disclose its policy regarding the establishment of a paper manufactory or to indicate what facilities would be given in the vay of a, subsidy and rights to enable private enterprise to take up the project. On the West Coast there are large tracts of timber country considered suitable for paper-making, which were adjacent to water power which could be harnessed for working the paper mills.' The Chamber resolved to urge the Education Department to turn its attention to gardening instruction at schools and to the necessity for the instruction of scholars relative to grasses and .^rass-growing, \ and to iisk the Agricultural Department to carry out special exerimente regarding the most suitable grasses to grow in various districts, according to the r.atiire of the different soils. '