SEED TESTING
CANTERBURY WANTS STATION Christchurch, This Day. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr Barclay, has been asked by the South Island Development Committee of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association to take immediate steps to have the Government seed testing station, Palmerston North, moved to Canterbury. In its letter to the Minister, copies of which have been sent to the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, the committee says: “It has been brought to our notice that th e Government seed testing station is located in rented premises in a commercial building in Palmerston North. This is really amazing in view of the fact that 96.93 per cent, of all seeds acreage is in the South Island and of this quantity 54.9 per cent, is in Canterbury. The figures are taken from the statistical report of the agricultural and pastoral production of the Dominion for the season 1941-42.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 29 September 1943, Page 5
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149SEED TESTING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 29 September 1943, Page 5
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