HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, June 27. At the conference of delegates of the Horticultural Society papers were discussed, including one on bee culture. A resolution wasjpassed that with a view to helping bee culture, Government should appoint a bee expert, and that Government be recommended to pass legislation to enable the Agricultural Department to deal with foul brood. Later.—The conference was closed tonight. The draft of the Constitution of the National Horticultural Society was adopted, and a provisional committee with Mr A. Bathgate as President. The Orchard and Garden Pests Bill, as amended by the Committee, was adopted, and Government is to bo urged to speedily pass it. The Auckland members dissented on the ground that until a specific had been discovered for the codlin moth such a measure would unduly harass fruit growers. The Fruit Show was largely attended to-day, about £l5O being taken at the doors.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 144, 29 June 1901, Page 4
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