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companies urging them to do something in this direction, and passed the following resolution : That the Board of Agriculture would urge upon shipping companies the desirableness of reducing the freight rates on purebred live-stock exported, especially to South America." It is gratifying to know that a vessel has been arranged for, and space for at least two hundred sheep has already been booked. Miscellaneous. The following are amongst some of the other matters dealt with : Importation of game birds into New Zealand; spread of cattle-tick, and cattle-tick regulations; conference of departmental Instructors in Agriculture with Cawthron Institute officials ; secondary education in relation to the professional and commercial side as against the training of country boys in agriculture ; sowing or planting of foreign seeds or plants in Tongariro National Park ; killing-rates, freight, &c, on fat stock; use of lighter-gauge wire in fencing; extension of Agricultural Instruction Branch of Department of Agriculture ; soil-survey ; experiments in use of Nauru/Ocean Island phosphate ; use of rabbit-traps; earmarking scheme; and Animals Protection and Game, Act, 1921, and regulations as to opossums. I have, &c, J. G. Wilson, President of the Board.

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