FARMING INTERESTS.
IMPORTANT SUBJECTS DEALT WITH. (Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, this day. The Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union held a. meeting to-day, the president, Mr. Poison, presiding. Five members of Parliament—Messrs. McLeod, Sykes, Masters, Ransome, and Maicpherson — attended, and after a. short discussion in committee agreed to the wishes of the executive to watch the legislation affecting farmers’ interests ns a. non-party committee. The Minister of Agriculture wrote that lie could not hold out a hope that the charges for the inspection of bonedust would be borne by the consolidated fund. The Meat Industry Board advised that the arrangement for sending a single carcase of lamb to any address in Britain was still in operation. The scheme had met with remarkable success. The Board was now receiving from the London office regular reports' by the inspector recently appointed to watch the unloading of vessels at Home. Attention was drawn by the Board to the selling of inferior lamb as New Zealand, and that prosecutions jiad been ordered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 9
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168FARMING INTERESTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 9
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