AGRICULTURISTS' NEEDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 6

AGRICULTURISTS' NEEDS.

DEPUTATION TO THE MINISTER. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS association.] Wellington, Friday. Delegates to the Agricultural Conference waited on the Hon. T. Mackenzie (Minister for Agriculture), to-day, to bring under his notice the most important resolutions passed by the conference.

The Minister, in reply, said he had been present most of the time the delegates were sitting, arid a good many points were already cleared tip. Regarding rural telephones, Mr. Logan (inspector) had already explained matters to the conference. The Government was anxious to do all it could to improve the conditions of country life. As to the frozen meat trade, he did not think America had done much harm up'to the present, but it was impossible to say what it might do in the future, when it had a greater hold on the Argentine market. New Zealand would have to work with Australia. He did not think the time was far distant when chilled beef would be sent from New Zealand. Under a new process meat could be kept for 30 days. In regard to the settlement of native land, a good deal more was being done than the public imagined, and the Government was alive to the situation. Every endeavour would be made to extend the co-operative experiments, and in time the South Island might have its experimental farm.