EMPIRE AGRICULTURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19781, 31 October 1927, Page 9

EMPIRE AGRICULTURE.

USEFUL MEETING CONCLUDED FOOD SUPPLY OF BRITAIN. A. and N.Z.Sun LONDON. Oct. 28. At the closing session of the Imperial Agricultural Conference the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture spoke in appreciation of the invitation of the Australian authorities to hold the conference in Australia in 1932. He said no Imperial Conference had been more constructive, nor its decisions more calculated to enhance the prosperity of agriculture in the Empire than the present conference. An Australian delegate, Mr. Julius, said he was sanguine the 1932 conference would have most important results, not only for Australia but for the Empire. The agricultural problems of Australia were legion, and admittedly insoluble without the cooperation of the most advanced investigators in the Empire. Australia hss done much pioneering work, but nevertheless she did not claim to be more than a branch of the British tree of scientific development. The Under-Secretary for the Dominions. Lord Lovat, pledged the Dominions Office and the Ministry of Agriculture to send representatives to the Australian conference, whatever Government might be in office Professor Daniel Hall, of Rangoon University, Burma, said the Empire should be self-supporting. Britain was dependent on foreigners for 46 per cent, of her wheat and flour and 47 per cent, of her beef. The Dominions were capable of supplying the shortage.