GOVERNOR'S AMBITION

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 85, 26 June 1930, Page 6

GOVERNOR'S AMBITION

HOPING FOR PROSPERITY

BRITAIN AND PEDIGREE STOCK. WELLINGTON, June ::■'. "I have 0110 groat ambition thai when J. am leaving New Zealand live years hence., the Dominion will be in a more prosperous, stale than it is today, and more confident as to the future of their industry than I hey were when I came," said His Excellency, the Governor-General (Lord Bledisiio) when opening the aiinn..! conference of 1 the Royal Agrieult .ra. 1 Society of -New Zealand tins afternoon. Jlis Excellency was given :: \v:;r:n welcome when introduced by ;.■■■ •■■• sident of the Society, Mr ... iv.ry, and in ickiitwludging it, saul u gave iiiin encouragement to hope that he might, en.j th" confidence of cliG agricultu. ~ pastoral connnunity during his stay amo. a them lie hop--011 tlie increased turnover in dairy produce would somewhat mitigate the eft'i ct of low [.rices. While the depression was world-wide there was reason to think it would be short-lived in New Zealand, more than in most countries.

He noticed that; some of the remits on the ordei paper involved considerations of Governmen policy, in winch respect it differed from the society in England, where they rigorously excluded from discussion anything that savoured of Government policy, or political controversy. That did not refer to animal diseased which the Society had made its own province, and care.

It avus with sonn hesitation, said His Excellency, that lie touched upon another subject, but he felt it was only fair to the Royal Agriculture Society of England that he should do so. While he believed many of them were ai.xious to obtain pedigree male stock, they were reluctant to allow animals to come to New Zealand from other countries and, particularly, Great Britain, for fear of foot and mouth disease. If they were really afraid o L the risk he would not press them to take it. but Great Britain had the finest stock in the world, of every description, and had exported stock to every country in the rid for the host part' of a century. There wa a no record of any case of foot and mouth disease being conveyed to any country in the stock so exported. There was no country in the world where the restrictions' on the spread of foot and month disease were more drastic, and with the quarantine station in London il was practically impossible for any animal suffering" from the disease to pass in, or out of, the country. He did not ask, or expect, fanners in New Zealand to accept those views, but he would be insincere if he did not present things as they saw them in the Old Country. In conclusion. His Excellency expressed his readiness, at any time, to give the farming community any help and advice in hi s power.