HORTICULTURE TRADE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 102, 24 January 1935, Page 10

HORTICULTURE TRADE

Appreciation of Lord Bledisloe’s Interest PROBLEMS DISCUSSED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, January 23. The annual conference of the New Zealand Horticultural Traders' Association was opened this morning. The president, Mr. 11. Bennett, occupied the chair, and there was a fairly large attendance; Prior to the commencement of the business Hie president extended a warm welcome to delegates. In his address lie said he was pleased to say that (lie association had established most cordial relationships with the Minister of Customs, the Minister of Agriculture, and the officers of that department, from Mr. J. 11. Campbell down, and on occasion they had found the assistance of the Department of Agriculture to be exceptionally valuable. He congratulated Dunedin members on the national show, which it was freely admitted was the best ever staged in New Zealand. Reporting on behalf of the landscape gardening committee, Mr. J. W. McLeod stated that business for the year had been about up to the average of the two previous years. A good number of small jobs had .been done, but contracts of any size had been few and far between. The building subsidy granted by the Unemployment Board had helped to some extent to induce people to build, but prices, even for small jobs, had suffered since the depression, The report was adopted. Mr. Bennett was re-elected president for the coming year, Mr. Lawson Burroughs (Gore) was re-elected South Island vice-president, and Mr. Arthur. W. Just, Palmerston North. North Island vice-president. Mr. N. McLeod introduced a Christchurch remit: “That conference express its appreciation of the services rendered to horticulture by their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloe, while occupying the position of his Majesty’s representatives in New Zealand.” Mr. McLeod said that, at the previous conference, warm appreciation iiad been expressed to Lord and Lady Bledisloe of the interest taken by them in horticulture, but he thought tint I ', as they would shortly be leaving the Dominion, the -association should again convey to them its sincere thanks for their kindly patronage and interest. Tribute to His Excellency, Mr. Waugh said it. had been decided as a tribute to his Excellency to ask him to accept the Loder Cup this year for his services to horticulture during his term as Governor-General of New Zealand. > The Dunedin remit, "That the Labour Department be asked to make it necessary for all seeds, plants and cut flowers covered under the Shops and Offices Act to be excluded from sight during the extended’ hours for fruiterers,” was carried. In connection with the issue of florists’ certificates, a remit, in the following terms was passed: “That conference views witli approval the regulations for florists’ certificates, and requests tlie Institute of Horticulture to take early steps to bring Hie regulations and examinations into active operation.” Tlie interests of horticultural students were discussed at some length, the following remit being carried: "That in view of the large number of horticultural students and others desiring to take horticultural courses who are unable, owing to distance, to attend regular classes, tlie Institute of Horticulture should approach the Education Department with a view to a correspondence course being established.” 1