AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 121, 24 June 1930, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Per Press Association.

— ROYAL CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY. SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS.

WELLINGTON, Last night. The anuual conference of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand will be opeiied in Wellington to-nior-row aftcrnoon by His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. Tliere ■ is some important business to discuss in relation to the Roya] Show, wliicli takes place at Hawke's Bay in October. ' .At; the night session an addfesg is to be given by Mi* W. D. Hunt ' on "Unemploymeiit-," ' There is to be_ a discussion 011. the . wool industry, including the report of the wool committee. the vcduction in frcights, reports from the Massey and Lincoln Agricultural Colleges. and also the proposed establishmcnt of a wool realisation board. On Thursday an address 011 noxious weeds will be given by Mr A. H. Cockayne, Assistant Director General of Agriculture, and by Mr J. Snell on "Rural Intermediate Cfedit and How Fanners Can Take Advantage of Tt." Tbe 25 remits oover a wide range of subjects, ineludiiig reciprocal _ trade witliin tlie Empire, land taxation to support the policy of the New Zealand Fanners' Unton, the levy for wool researcli, and advertisiiig the provision of the diploma for science and tlie nractice of agriculture and the _ co-or-dination of agricultural education for young people.