STILL PRESSING FOR SEED TESTING STATION
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DUNEDTN, ilav 21. Btrong dissatist'action with the recent statement that the Government Beed Testing .Stati'on would not be moved from Palmerston North, was expresseul at a meeting of tlie Otago p'rovincial exocutive of Fedcrated Farmers of New Zealand today. The seeretary, M r. U. H. Calder, stated that a meeting of protest to be attended by reprcseiitat ives of all interested bodies, would shdrtly be held in Dunedin. Mr. ,T. S. Flliot. said th'at the official poliey had been laid down and it Was doubtful whether anything further could be done. The chairman, Mr. J. B. Hunt, said the bulk of the Dominion's sefeds was ])rodueed in the Bouth Island, and the testing station should be in this Island. "The decision to keep the station in the North Island is absurd, " said Mr. Skinner. "There would be just as mueh senso in establishing a" dairy research .station in Central Otago. ' ' ■ M r. Hunt said that as ma.tters' stood at presoiit, the seed growers had to wait for months to get. their germination test and the position was becoming worse every ycar. ' ' We will have •to keep on pushiitg for a change until we get it," he added.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 May 1946, Page 8
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