EMPIRE AGRICULTURE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11

EMPIRE AGRICULTURE.

CONFERENCE CLOSED. (BT CABLI—PMSS ASSOCIATION— COPTIUOttT ) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON. October 28. Lord Bledisloe, closing the Agricultural, Conference, expressed appreciation of Australia's hospitality in inviting the conference to intet there in 1932. No Imperial conference had been more constructive or had produced decisions more calculated to enhance Empire prosperity in agriculture than the present conference. Mr Julius stated that he was sanguine that the 1932 conference would nave most important results, not only for Australia, but for the whole Empire. Australian agricultural problems were legion, and admittedly insoluble without co-operation with the most advanced investigators of the Empire. Australia had done much pioneering; nevertheless, it did not claim to be more than a branch of the British tree of scientific development. Lord Lovatt said that the Colonial Office and the Ministry of Agriculture would support the Australian conference whatever Government was in office. Professor Daniel Hall,* of Burma, said that a self-supporting Empire was needed. Britain was dependent on foreigners for 40 per cent, of her wheat and flour and 47 per cent, of her beef. The Dominions were capable of supplying the shortage.