CONFERENCE AT HONOLULU.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19278, 16 September 1924, Page 7

CONFERENCE AT HONOLULU.

MATTERS OB' NEW ZEALAND INTEREST.

STATEMENT BY HON. G. M THOMSON.

(Fxb United P-bess Association.! AUCKLAND, September 15. Speaking of the recent conference at Honolulu, one of the New Zealand representatives, the Hon. G. M. Tromson, who returned by the Makura, said he thought the conference had been successful and useful. Among the subjects discussed of great importance to the country was the preservation of whales, seal, and other fur-bearing animals in the Pacific. This, he thought, would be arranged eventually by an international agreement. A closer study of ocean currents as they affected the distribution of food for fish as likely to eventuate as a result of the discussion and could be of use to New Zealand. The quarantine section discussed parasites to cope with insect pests. , It seemed to him that New Zealand was regarded as fairly clean, so far as fruit disease was concerned, and that there was plenty of scope in New Zealand for apples. It was remarked that iho supervision of exported apples at Auckland was scarcely severe enough. If the fruit were properly examined at this end there was room 'for a bigger trade m apples from New Zealand than at present. He had definite information that the foot-and-mouth disease in California had originated in garbage. The Hawaiian authorities had decided to preserve strict quarantine for a further period.