MARLBOROUGH SHEEPOWNERS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 6

MARLBOROUGH SHEEPOWNERS

ANITBOiRD OF AGRICULTURE

j The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. W Noswortby, received at | Welliiigtoi^; on Friday a. deputation i from tho Marlboro igh .iSkeep-ofwners1 Union,, who requested tliat tlio district should have representation on the Board of Agricultiire. Mt Tescliemakei- ■ (chairman), pointed) out that thero were over a million.sheen in Mnrlborougm, as agauist Nelson's 4-00,000 and AVestland's'- 143,000. Tho throe provinces Imd ono i-eprosonta/tive on the board between them, and owing; to tho f.u-t

th-it Ncl«on imd a liumbe-r of small <w-g:.xnisa.tions,- that proviitce got the rc]-/irejssntativo. 'Hie Ministei' said that Marlborougji \v,\s a oig'pro-vhiQC- ;i"d. deserved consideration. He would bo glad to look into, the matter, and peo what could be .rdona to moot the position.