A. AND P. SOCIETIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9559, 4 August 1909, Page 5

A. AND P. SOCIETIES.

CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 3. The Conference of A. and P. Societies of New Zealand opened this morning. There was a very large attendance of delegates. Mr J. G. Wilson presided, and in his presidential address he gave an outline of the work of the past year. He said some difficulty was experienced in.getting the motions passed by last Conference put into effect owing to the unwieldy personnel of the committee. The Conference had sent out thousands of queries on the subject of grasses to ascertain what varieties had proved best throughout New Zealand. The results would be' laid before the Conference at a later stage. As he was not now taking any active part in the management ; of any A. and P. Association, he would like to give prominence to one or two matters which were of great moment to the agricultural and pastoral community—the question of agricultural education and the need for establishing a school of veterinary, science. Mr Wjlson also referred to the Meteorological Journal, the publication of which the Government f had discontinued on the sore of expense. He hoped batter counsels would prevail. He reviewed the frozen meat trade on the line 3 of his address to the Farmers' Union last week, and had something further to say on the question of co-operating with a view to feeding the market in Great Britain judiciously. Why . should not a freezing companies* association be formed, and a committee be appointed *;o regulate the trade. He was almost forced to the conclusion that ther,a. something-, else other tHan mere supply and demand at work, and to counteract the American move—if it existed—combination was the only weapon.