HORTICULTURE

Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 6

HORTICULTURE

A FORWARD MOVE. SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL WORK. An important conference on the subject of horticulture is to be held in Wellington next week when the second annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture will be held. District Councils have already been formed in Dunedin, Auckland, Christchurch, and Palmerston North, and some of our leading educationalists and horticulturists are identified with the movement. “The objects of the Institute” state the convenors, “are many and varied. It stands to improve and foster every branch of horticulture; one of its objectives is educational. It hopes to assist in the establishment of a school or schools of horticulture for the Dominion, besides a large amount of scientific and practical work as opportunity offers. It aims to be a unifying authority, exercising a leading part in moulding public opinion on horticultural matters, and assisting all interests now at work in that direction. We believe that Wellington, with its central position, wide range of horticultural possibilities, and its splendid educational advantages, will be prepared to take its rightful place in this important matter, especially in furthering education along this very important branch of science. Realising the importance of the field covered by the Institute, the Government had marie a grant of £l5O, £1 for £l, to assist the organisation work of the Institute, for this year.”