NURSERYMEN’S TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 14

NURSERYMEN’S TRADE

DOMINION CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON MANY REMITS FORWARDED Forty remits are to be presented to the New Zealand Horticultural Trades’ Association conference to commence in Wellington on January 15. The convention will be officially opened by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, and delegates will be accorded a civic welcome by the Mayor, Mr. E. A. Troup. The business is likely to be of a highly interesting character, and will include addresses on stocks, nursery practice, and nursery costing. The evening session on Thursday, January 16, will be open to the public, and there will be an exhibition of florist designs by the Wellington florists exchange, including choice and new fruits and citrus fruits. Lectures will be interspersed with elocutionary items. The last day of the conference delegates will be entertained by the Wellington Horticultural Trades’ Association Council. Remits for consideration include: “That tile attention of the Department of Horticulture be drawn to the continued sale of plants from unregistered nurseries, both privately and from auction marts. “That the Government be approached with the suggestion that in future appointments of orchard instructors one qualification should be that applicants must have a working knowledge of the nursery business. “That the conference take steps to secure amendments to the Act to give protection of bona fide florists in regard to closing hours and unfair competition after hours. “That action be taken to have legalised the making, delivering and selling of urgent funeral orders after hours. “That the State Forest Service be requested to give a statement of its nursery and overhead costs incurred in the production of stock grown for sale and that a statement be supplied showing its avenues for the disposal of the surplus trees left after the season's selling operations." Several remits recommend the establishment of a horticultural training school, a national scenic botanic garden scheme, and a research station to test out novelties and root stocks. The reinstatement of the Urban Farm Lands Eating Bill is the substance of another remit. A number of remits deal with the questions of prices and discounts for the coming year. Eemits dealing with the transport of nursery goods between the two Islands is also to be considered, together with a recommendation to the Railway Department to make a special rate for nursery goods.