AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 9

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

;a- : . -if;? ?K: ; ?a: : v?"? &?• ■ Chrlslchuroh,\February': 10?-;: #AfcsKe ! meeting of the "General, Committee of the Canterbury;A:?arid;P. Association'toiday'i j\Ir',V;I): : 'I), -M'Farlane';'said. lie'had ;re-. JbOived: a:iJetter-;frbm>Mr;? Edmund -Hal),',', of. 'Auckland; asking whether hejwould bring the ithis;^af; with'a view:qf/elicitihg.ianVflpihionfwhetherl.nno/ should i ;' ; : ;At=:ihe, conferf 'elide^l^l9o7)':tho!last'held, i .';a permanent -com-; Sittee/J consisting* bf/.dclegates .from various} :partsJof,'the'Dominion,.\was : i appointed •aud i 'asked't»~gbvfully'. : intb.i'the". matter of ■ federating ;-the{.whole "of-; the 'agricultural •'and''"pastoral /societies, of'.the Ddmiriiori:■;]This body,was-to be created with' \syim ofi be'iag.ablb.to oxjiress in an authbii-; '■community? as'fa .; whole??aiid':.iiltimatoly?be-: :bbmirig? a?: strong {representative? body that • ; might.'be ; called :thb.'Royal A; ;and .P.; Society 'bf;Nbw.'Zealarid.v --'The, delegates'-; had .beeii. '.a'ppbinted, ; ;and:hb; ; (Mr. il'Faflane);had:• been' ;appbihtbd?for.;CahtcMry; ; :A!iNo;:meetin'gVof, :tW: ; committep:hadye't;,bebn':held ) 'ihpug ,A7a's v . : sbme -two/years A ago?; aiuVhe/would; like; ; tb : .knbwAwhetber"the;..associatibn ; would ;'-.joiri=in?MvingV a: meeting '■'a's i ?.tb.'?the. 'holding of: .'tho.-■■conference'. ■It^had'-beeh'said;.that.'tlib jpafmefs',.Union :had'to.a large extent supor\io . thought'the'confbrences :• were '[ 0f..; great?use "io\ the Farmers' /Un3on;?and;;hb ; ?this:yearV{;:{{sC:'?-v ?^?x. ;; :^:":>?- : *-v ; : *[''■? v? It:: was resqly.fd.i'tjiat.i't,is.'dc'sirable-thatj.a: : cbrirbrencb v shbuld?bb' i heldi:.this:year , ;.g~;