WINIER SHOW.
P<ir Press Association. .« PALMERSTON NORTH, June 19. Tho attendance was large on both days and evening of the Winter Show.. The Hon. Mr McNab arrived at noon to open the show, and .subsequently received a deputation from the butter-makers and flax-millers on matters of interest to their respective industries. One matter mentioned was the shortage of white pine for the manufacture of butter boxes. The deputation urged that the Government reserves containing white pine should be kept for that purpose. The Minister replied that the quoiiion for the future would be the planting of suitable trees for box-making.
Imreply to the ftaxmiliers, the Minister said that" the Department, had no desire to injure the. conditions which -would.-in-terfere with the industry. A conference of graders 'would bo held in Wellington during the. mouth when the mattera mentioned would be brought up, and the; result announced early in July.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13317, 20 June 1907, Page 5
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149WINIER SHOW. Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13317, 20 June 1907, Page 5
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