HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 10

HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTE.

NEW ZEALAND CONFERENCE. Remits to be considered at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture in Christchurch on January 27 include the following : That district councils be urged to make every effort to secure the establishment or continuance of classes for horticultural students. That serious endeavour be made to exploit new avenues with a. view to increasing the membership of the institute, by (a) using a name more readily understandable to amateur gardeners such ns Royal Horticultural Society (N.Z.); (l>j enabling members to use the letters F.R.H.S. (N.Z.); (c) making awards of. recognition to those gardeners, amateur or professional, whose services' to horticulture, scientific research, cultural art or developmental, have been deserving of such awards, to be limited to two each year in each province; (d) inviting the Government to consider the advisability of consulting the institute in connection with all gardening broadcasts from national stations.

That all city and borough councils employing gardeners be urged to affiliate with the institute.

That municipalities, nurserymen, institutions and individuals possessing gardens suitable for training, be urged to give preference of employment to registered students of the institute and to its certificate or diploma holders.

That, in view of the number of plant patents granted in the United States of America, similar facilities should be available in New Zealand.