A. AND P. WORKERS' CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 202, 15 May 1918, Page 8

A. AND P. WORKERS' CONFERENCE

The annual conference of the Agi'icnJiuval and Pastoral Workers' Lmon will bo opened in Wellington to-day. homo of the business to be discussed is ot an important nature cuWctmcb nil be attended by Messrs. Coo\> ct Cmistchurcli (elected president), A. J. or Kcrrytown (outgoing president), A. M'Leod (M'asterton), J. Mec _(Welling'ton , W. Boon and C. Baldwin (Christchurch), S Boreham (Dfinediu), A. J. Middiemiss (Gore), and Grayndlcr (secretary).

Referring to the conference of dairy company representatives at Wellington on Thursday last, Mr 11. E. Pacey .man-a-in" director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, said the. conference was lor tlie purpose of affirming a policy anu appointing a committee to carry on negotiations for tlio disposal ot next season s butter output. It was decided by the dairy companies that Mr. If. hlhson, iepreventative of the Zealand JNational Dairy Association in London, should lmve a . part in wrmng cut the negotiations with tlio Imperial . authorities, and it was aso desired that New Zoalaml and Australia should co-oporate to sonio extent m i'®" card to the disposal of l>iittor. Mr. J'bcot added that last week b conference -st.-is tlio initial step toward arrangmfor the disposal of next sonsons output, and the Auckland representatives appointed on tho Dominion Committee wore Mr. ft. Goodt'ellow and himself. Owing io illnoss he had been unablo to attenu the ronferonco, but the matters dealt with had been discussed by tho dairy companies from limo to timo and <"<> appointment of a Dominion committee was a necessary -preliminary to tlio carrying out of negotiations for tlio disposal of tho coming season's output. Tlio General Committoo of tho Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association has elected the Exccutivo Committee for tlio current yoar. The members or 1 li«« (isec.utivo nro: Messrs. Joseph Amluii'v, II- IJrown. Selwyn Hamlin, h. Jtodge, T. ]•:. Hayr, A. C. Jones, J. P. Kalauglier, 1. 0. Gray, A. Muir W. W. M'lsscv K- r>' M'Lemiau, V. I'. JvcrrTavlo .'John Wyllie. A. A. White, J. 0. Ttu'therford, 3.U. Walter,. A. S Thorny son. tho Hon. G. .1. Garland, fell- Bobeit Uickharl., and Major Lusk.