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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2311, 4 August 1921, Page 2

“I am looking forward to ilie time when the services of the Agricultural Department to the farmers will he far more in the direction of instruction than of inspection,” said the director of agriculture, Dr. C. J. Roakes, at the conference of the Now Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington. “In order to bring that about, it is essential that we should have all the fanners working with us in dealing with the matters in which we have to use inspectors at the present time. I must say that to a very great extent there is most cordial co-operation between the farmers and the departmental officers, hut we want even more of it, and the greater the-extent to which the farmers themselves deal with their own rabbits and their own noxious weeds, and keep a careful watch and preventive measures against disease in their stock, the greater the extent to which the officers will be able to devote themselves to instruction in place of inspection.”