AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 17

AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION

PROPOSED FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. INVERCARGILL, October 3.

A scheme for the establishment of a Southland Farmers’ Institute for the collecting and spreading of agricultural knowledge has been evolved by Mr A. Napper, of Woodlands, and, provided sufficient support is forthcoming from the farming community, steps will be taken almost immediately to bring the new organisation into existence. Mr Napper has already received indications of approval from many farmers in Southland, and agricultural and scientific experts in various parts of the Dominion have expressed their willingness to assist.

Mr Napper states that the function of the institute will be to gather all information available concerning animal, plant, and soil nutrition, and to direct local experiments and prepare data and advice for the benefit of -farmers to suit local conditions.

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

SLIGHT ON WANGANUI BORT.

WANGANUI, October 3.

A representative and well-attended conference of delegates from dairy factories over a wide area who are doing business with Wanganui port met this morning and passed a resolution protesting againsr the action of the Dairy Control Board in completing an agreement with the overseas shipping companies which restricts' the exportation of dairy produce through the port of Wanganui. The meeting expressed the opinion that the conditions should not have been agreed to by the board in the interests of the dairy industry, because it established a precedent for interference throughout New Zealand with the right of dairy factories to ship their produce through any grading port. The meeting asks the Minister of Agriculture to request the board to take immediate steps to re-establish the conditions which obtained at Wanganui prior to the coming into force of the present new agreement.

A further resolution requested ment to take a plebiscite of the dairy industry with a view to the abolition of the board.