HORTICULTURAL WORK.
AIORK RESEARCH PROPOSED. DUNEDIN, March 0. A meeting was held last night with the .object of forming a District Council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, with the aim ol locussing in one body the interests of all these identified with horticulture. Mr T K. Sidey. M.P., presided, and an inti resting address was given by Mr CL (iieen, F.R.H.S., on the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture auji wlmt it aimed at. The following resolutions "ere cari ied : “That this meeting endorses the objects of the New Zealand Institute V Horticulture, and lieiehv resolves te fe, m an Otago District. Council of the institute under the constitution and bylaws of the New Zealand Institute oi il.'iti ulture (imorrorateii): that thina cling is in heal tv reeoid with the proposals to fuithor horticultural adulation in the Dominion; that the executive he requested to take the nocc.ssi.r.v steps to secure the assistance to all able to further the movement with the object of a school of horticulture being set lip in Dunedin under the ,li.‘ection of the Institute of Tlorticuluiie at the earliest possible date; th-t this meeting of horticulturists and others interested in the development ol horticulture in New Zealand strongly supports the New Zealand Association t'f Nurserymen in the request that the ‘■i veinmer.t should advance pound, for pound up to £IOO for this year to assist the work of organising the Insti-
tute of Horticulture, and that the matter of further advances he on the brsi of the progress of the institute: t’at tile Government be asked to provide more liberally for educative and re--ciirch work along horticultural lines, aa! that the Government biological ,ie! lie provided with the most up-to-date appliances for carrying out tlnur work cll'cctivoly.”
Copies of til,; forgoing resolutions wi|| he forwarded to the Prime Minist ", the Ministers of Agriculture and Education, the Dircctor-Gencia'l of Ap.i iciilture. and the Director of the ilorticulturn! Division.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1924, Page 1
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