THE ORCHARDS AND GARDEN PESTS BILL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 164, 21 July 1901, Page 3

THE ORCHARDS AND GARDEN PESTS BILL.

AL'THUDEOK AUCKLAND FBOIIGRO rt ERS. THK CODLIN MOTHS. AUCKLAND, July^O. At a meeting of the Auckland F.unuroweri.' Umou the fulu. win inotiun was _naniu.ou»ly auopuid • " That this meeting of fruitgrowers, representative of the Auokland d strict, ha .ng learned thai resolutions leßpecting legislation re orohard and garden pe.ts weie adopted at a conference held in connectiou with the lunodin Horticultural Society, d - sire to enter iheir protest against tbe i_tioducion thiß session of any legislation affecting the Buppre^ion of the codlin moth ior the following reason : - (a) That the finding of the Dunedin Conference is misleading, b-caiuw only some 10„per cent of the delegates were piactical, commercial fruitgrowers, and for tne most put were not in auy case represem alive of any important fru»t district, Auckland alone excepted ; lb) Thai the methud of discussing the measure was unreasonable and prevented tair consideration; (c) That the composition of the committee appointed to report upon the Jiill was never representative of the fruitgrowers, nor of the respective partß of the colony, in pioportlOu to the commercial importance of the fruit industry ; (d) That in view of experiments being conducted by the Government m two Auokland orchards for the suppression f tho codlin moth, this meeting begs to endorse the action of the Union last year iu urging that further legislation be delayed until the reb uits of the uove rnment experiments Bhall have proved to be possible a commercial success in terms of ihe understanding come to last year with the Government."