INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 5

INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE

Tlie monthly meeting of the executive council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture was held recently at Wellington, when the following were present:—Dr. W. R. B. Oliver (chair), Mrs Knox Gilmer, Messrs Waugh, Hyde, and the secretary. Condolence was directed to be conveyed to the Southland District Council on the death of Mr A. F. Hawke. In acknowledging a copy of the judge’s report of the first competition, held at the Dunedin Horticultural Society’s autumn show, for the Bledisloe Cup, i.e. two cases of apples packed as though for export, the following letter dated August 19, 1936, was received from Viscount Bledisloe: “Many thanks for sending me a copy of Mr Geo. Mclndoe’s most interesting and instructive report on his adjudication for the award of the Bledisloe Cup. I am particularly interested to note that Jonathans and Stunners continue to maintain their high quality and reputation—at least in the area of Central Otago.” Mr J. A. McPherson (Christchurch; reported that the working plan of the School of Horticulture had been prepared for later submission to Ministers of the Crown concerned therein. It was reported that the recommended exemption of the institute’s horticultural students from the Wellington Labourers’ Union had not been agreed to and that registration of a separate union of nurserymen and gardeners had been refused.—Letters are to be sent to the Ministers of Labour, Education and Agriculture stressing the importance of the institute’s scheme of training and protesting against differential treatment to gardeners in Wellington as compared with other districts, in forcing them, to join the General Labourers’ Union, and urging exempion for students, etc., of the institute. The Taranaki district council visited Stratford on the occasion of the spring flower show, where a. most successful meeting was held with enrolment of new members. Gratification was expressed with the renewed activity of the Otago District Council.