AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 13

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS.

I • r ! v EEOBGANISATION CONCLTOED. A circular has been addressed to mombers of tho Agricultural Department, setting forth tho | duties of the various officers under ' the reorganisation' schome, which is now , : complete. The : leading features of the ' • scheme . have : 1 been published at intervals in The " Dominion. In addition to the 1 changes previously announced, however, it has 1 been decided that district agencies are to 1m 1 established at Auckland, Napier, Wanganuii 1 Wellington, Christchurch, Dufiodin, lnvercar- , frill, who will.deal with'.correspondence (include ing typewriting), letter-books, general clerical 1 work, special , registers, eto. The, staff will 1 consist of the district'agents and olerks. • > '' In its reorganised form, the.Department, iin- •• der Mr. P. S.-.Pope, as Secretary, will comprise ' the'following divisions:—Tho head office, live i stock and: meat, division, .orchards, gardens,'and , apiaries division, dairy produce division, comi. merce, mid tojirists. division.'; The head office . i oompriscs the following sections:— ■ General, section, llr. \V. C. Robinson, actingi chief 'olerk; accounts scction, Mr. J. \V. Bell, : : accountant, - publications section, Mr. G. Bis- . set, editor; biology , section; .Mr. A. H. ; -Cockayne, biologist. ■ i The directors of tho divisions are:—Mr. C. i J. Reakes, M .K.<'.\'.S., director of the live i stock and meat division. Mr. Reakes will also ■ hold tho position'of chicf inspector of stock. : Mr. 1 E... Ci.'.ca, director of'tho-fields and ei- . neriment ■ farms division. Mr. T. W. Kirk, : director of tho orchards, gardens, and apiaries : division. . Mr. D. Cuddie,; director of tho dairy Sroduce division. Mr. \C. R, C. Robieson, irectpr of the commerce and tourists'division. Tho chcmistry staff and laboratory of the ' Department of Agriculture have bi-eii traus- . fe'rrcd to! the Internal. Affairs Department, and in fnturo a deal of work for tho Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists will be undertaken by the Dominion Analyst,