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PART FOUR—SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS The following is a summary of the recommendations that we have made : Matters Within the Portfolio of the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture: 1. Reconstruction of the Wool Board to become a Sheep Industry Board representing the sheep industry and parallel to the Dairy Board (pages) 48. 2. Introduction of a standard price for fertilizer, 91. 3. Department of Agriculture to be central authority for all matters concerning farming methods. Department to correlate all agricultural research and to organize a Sheep Division parallel to the Dairy Division, 60. 4. The Director-General of Agriculture to have the responsibility for organizing the distribution of fertilizers, 94. 5. Appointment of a committee to inquire into the usage and demand for fertilizers, 94. 6. Local authorities to be encouraged to compost organic wastes, 97. 7. The Director-General of Agriculture to include in his Annual report a statement of the weed position in each county, and to appoint Weed Control Officers, 111. 8. Experiments in aerial top-dressing should come under the control of the Director-General of Agriculture, 116. 9. The Director-General of Agriculture to arrange for the importation of iron intermediates and standards for fencing, 118. 10. The Department of Agriculture, in co-operation with the Ministry of Works, to proceeds with irrigation works, 119. 11. The Department of Agriculture to proceed with research into certain matters listed, 121. 12. The Department of Agriculture to proceed with the establishment of two experimental stations, 124. 13. The Department of Agriculture to take precautions against the importation of weed-seeds, 125. 14-. The Department of Agriculture to co-operate with the Sheep Industry Board in undertaking a general survey of the sheep industry, 125. 15. The Department of Agriculture to prohibit the use of certain materials for branding and wool marking, 129. 16. The Return of Sheep Owners to be compiled as at 30th June and to include much additional information, 129. 17. The Department of Agriculture to assume the responsibility for arranging transport of live-stock in periods of drought, 130. 18. The Department of Agriculture to arrange for the availability of ground rock phosphate where required, 145. Matters Within the Portfolio of the Hon. the Minister of Defence (Air Force) : 1. The Royal New Zealand Air Force to experiment with helicopters for aerial top-dressing, 116. 2. The Air Department to designate as emergency airstrips suitable areas in the back country, 130.