Conference Brevities

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 6

Conference Brevities

‘‘You were out of order when you had the floor, so you could not have had it,” one delegate told another. “You are Irish,” cried several members. “Not Irish, pure English,” protested the speaker agitatedly. .* * * “Where are we going to stop with all this array of inspectors going all over the country? The farmer foots the bili for them and their motor-cars” —Mr. C. J. Harkness (Waiuku). • • * “I’m afraid to come down to this city. I can’t stand and have a chat for a few minutes without a policeman coming along and moving me on”—a speaker at the conference this morning. * * * “I know one road that one time is covered with gravel and the next is a switchback. I reckon it costs half a crown to five shillings for every car that goes over it.”—Mr. A. E. Robinson, talking of a county highway. * * * The urgent need for concentration on grading was stressed by Mr. E. Boyd. He wanted to see testing and grading of milk and cream at factories supervised by qualified State officials. “It is only by making this question national,” Mr. Boyd said, “that we will get anywhere. We must not forget that, while w T e have a market at Home, it is a market asking for absolutely the best.” * * * Conference delegates were invited by the loeai manufacturers to visit factories and see secondary industries in Auckland. The conference was so far behind schedule with the remits this morning, however, that the president, Mr. A. A. Ross, expressed doubt that this could he done. “Oh> never mind,” put in Capt. H. M. Rushworth, M.P., “if we cannot get along to see these industries at w'ork, I suggest the local manufacturers coud bring their goods before the farmers by advertising in our paper!” This was acclaimed by the conference as “a brain-wave.”