AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE

STATEMENT BY }R)X. T. MACKENZIE

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, August 11. Delegates from the A. and I'. Conference waited on the lion. Mackenzie this morning to bring under his notice the most ini|K,rtant resolution passed by the conference. The Minister, in reply, said he had bee, present most of the time that delegates were sitting, ami a good many of the points had already been cleared mi.

lii-girdiug rural telephones, Mr. Lo"an, Inspector of Electric Telegraphs, had already explained matters to the cot teience. The (lovcrninent was anxious to do all it could to improve tile conditions of country life. No land' badly infested with noxious weeds, he went ou to say, would be abandoned until he had been over it.

4s to the frozen meat trade, he aid not think the American trust hail' done imich harm up l„ l|„. prcscnt.bul it was impossible to say what it might do ia future when it had a greater hold on the Argentine market. New Zealand would have to work with Australia. He did not think th- ti was far distant when chilled heel would In- sent- from New Zealand under a new process hv vviiieji meat could |„. u,.,,t (,„. thirt'y days. '

In regard to the settlement nf Yalive lands, n good deal more Has bein.. done than the public Imagined, and the Government was alive to the situation, hvcry endeavor would he made to extend the co-operative experiments. In tune the Soull, Island might have them and experimental farms.