AUCKLAND AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11680, 15 June 1901, Page 3

A UCKLAND AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the Auckland Provincial Agricultural Association was held yesterday. There were presort: Messrs. It. Dick (president), W. F. Massey, M.H.R., J. Massey (vice-president), V. F. Kerr-Taylor, J. Walters, J. Scott, J. Udy, and .J". Wylhe.

A letter was received from the Franklin Agricultural Association, slating that it was the intention ot that body —as uus been the case in previous year.-.— to inaugurate a. ploughing match in a tew days at i'apatoetoe, lor the purpose of experimenting on a number of new implements, and asking the Auckland Association to co-operate and send a quota of it.-? members out to view the match. It was deemed to accept the invitation, and the following gentlemen- were chosen to represent Hie association:— .i. Waiters, J. Wylhe, V. F. Kerr-Taylor, and the president.

The Department of Agriculture wrote : stating that the Commissioner ot Customs : has now decided to allow cutting ma j chinos to be adre tied to the colony tuny ; free, as agricultural machinery. I

It was mentioned that Captain Broun has i agreed to give a lecture o:t Insect Tests," ! at an early date in Auckland. j

The association lcccivcd the following j letter from the Minister for Lands (Mr. T. Y. , Duuewn) regarding ttie importation of bone- ; dust: — "The deputation introduced by your association in March hist, in connection vvi.h the importation of bonedust, when the regulations issued in October last prohibiting tin i importation of raw or green hones were considered necessary, owing to the risk oi introducing anthrax in insutlicientiy-steainetl ' boiiedtist. The eases of this disease which have occurred in the colony were clearly j traceable to the use ol green bonedust on the paddocks on which the affected stock were running. 1 am, therefore, not pre- : pared to sanction removal of prohibition, and I cannot agree to the lauding of bonedust from America, as several dangerous diseases capable of being introduced through ; the medium of boncdust are more or less : prevalent there. Further, I do not see my way clear to establish a station bar steaming bones or bone-dust, but if such were erected near the wharf by private enterprise, some relaxation of the regulations would probably be granted." The president and secretary wero appointed a committee to arrange a conference of bonemiliers to consider the restrictions of the importation of bones and bonedust.

Several alterations in the association show schedules were made. Rule 22 was altered to read as follows: — " No exhibits that have secured a first prize for two years in succession shall be allowed to compete again in the same class, but they may b n entered for champion or special classes, and cut,-ret! again in the same classes after an interval of a year." The following new members were elected :

—Messrs. C. Baglcy, .1. S. Wilson, 0. lies- , keth, and 11. S. Btirgay. j