BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11000, 12 February 1914, Page 6

BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

THE CANTERBURY REPRESENTATIVE. MR 1). I>. MACFARLANE NOMINATED. A meeting was held in the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's rooms to-day to select a nominee for recommendation to the Government as the representative- of Canterbury on the proposed Board of Agriculture. Mr J. Grigg (representing the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association and the Sheepbreeders' Union) presided, and there were also present Messrs I>. I). Macfarlane (Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association), A. S. Clarkson (Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association), A. M. Jameson (Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association), A. Murray (Metbven Agricultural and Pastoral Association), A. Drummond (Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association) and "VV. "Weld (Oxford Agricultural and Pastoral Association). A letter was received from the Department of Agriculture explaining the jnirpo.se of the Board of Agriculture Act, which provided for the division of each island into four districts, each to bo represented on the Board. Canterbury was one such district.' Mr D. D. Macfarlane was unanimously elected for recommendation to the Government as the representative of the Canterbury district on the Board. In returning thanks for his election Mr Macfarlane said that he was diffident in accepting the honour of nomination, but as he had been elected he would endeavour to represent Canterbury ably. He enlarged on the importance of the Board, which, he said, would have the control of the most important Department in the Government of New Zealand. If the right men were elected to the Board., and they threw themselves into their work, a great deal of good would-be done. The policy of the Board wouTd be its policy as a whole, and the speaker would not be justified in mentioning his ideas, as he was only one member of the Board. He hoped, however, that the men who were elected to represent other districts would be men of experience in matters pertaining to agricultural and pastoral pursuits, and that the farming community would be well represented.