AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1921, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.

THE TARANAKI SOCIETY. DOMINION REMITS CONSIDERED. Remits from various A. and P. societies, which will be dealt with at the annual conference of the New Zealand Council of Agriculture next week, were discussed ‘by the Taranaki Agricultural Society’s general committee yesterday, when instructions were given to delegates as to voting on the respective motions.

The Canterbury Association has put forward a remit asking that the report of the sub-committee set up to consider the question of a royal show be considered. Members did not favor instructing the society’s delegate to support this move straight, out, however, as in their opinion it did not appear it would be in the interests of the smaller societies. The societies would ballot for the right to hold the show each year, but qualifications included a membership of 1000 and that a society must give over £lOOO in prize money. It was decided to approve of a proposal that the Agricultural Department be requested to especially advise on the best use of Nauru and Ocean Island phosphates in regard to ground rock or phosphates. The meeting did not express any opinion on the -following motion from Timaru: “That as the labor on the waterfront throughout New Zealand is most unsatisfactory and vitally affects the welfare of this country the Minister of Labor be asked to convene a conference of all harbor boards with a view to the adoption of some system of permanent labor on the wharves; that the harbor boards of the Dominion should have an executive in Wellington to regulate the shipping as much as possible at each port. General suggestions have been made by various societies regarding railway facilities for carriage of stock. It was decided to lend support to the remit from Egmont urging that the department make such arrangements in regard to the conveyance to their final railway destination -in time to enable the stock to be landed at the showgrounds in daylight. Questions which were left open were remits concerning the formation of a producers’ shipping company and the grading of meat. The Stratford delegate is to bring for* ward a remit urging the Government to revert to £3 3s per cow for semi-official testing, on the grounds that the present cost of £5 5s is not in the best interests of increasing production.