BRITAIN MAY NOT WANT N.Z. SEEDS
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Received Tuesday, 7 p.m, LONDON, July 22, A scheme which may have an effect upon New Zealand gi'ass- seed exports to United Kingdom, was. announced at Woodhail Spa where the Lipcolnshirt' Seed Growers' Association convened a national conference of British seed growers and urged the National Farxn e rs ' Union to advocate the estahlish ment of a joint British seed growing organisation or alternatively to urgt the establishment of a producer controlled seed board in Britain. Mr. Henry Burtt, chairman of the conference, said British growers had learned through hard necessity during the war, that they could produce a vast range of fine quality agricultural, horticultural and garden seeds. The time had now arrived when they must press for increasing production of ho-me grown seeds. Professor Scott Watson, addressing the conference, said he was convinced home-grown seed, properly looked after. was better than any imported seed ann that British growers could convince the farming indust.ry that" this was so.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1947, Page 5
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