Grain, Seed and Produce Conference 1937

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Delegates at the annual conference of the New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants’ Federation, Hastings Municipal building, 24 November 1937

Newspaper article from “The Evening Post”, 23 November 1937 –

GRAIN MERCHANTS’ CONFERENCE

The annual conference of the New Zealand Grain, Seed, and Produce Merchants’ Federation, will be held at Hastings on Wednesday and Thursday. The delegates from Wellington attending the conference are Messrs. A. Burch, G. Cooper, Alex. Gerrie, H. Harman, V. McPhail, E. Rowe, E. Stoupe, and H. C. Wilton.

Newspaper article from “The Press”, 25 November 1937 –

SEED TESTING STATION IN SOUTH ISLAND THOUGHT UNLIKELY
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
HASTINGS, November 24.

Little hope of a seed-testing station being erected in the South Island was held out to delegates attending the conference of the New Zealand Seed, Grain, and Produce Merchants’ Federation, held last evening, by Mr Nelson Foy, of the Plant Research Station, Palmerston North.

He said that if the present station was removed from Palmerston North it would certainly go to Wellington. Seed stations were very expensive to equip and maintain, and it was considered that the present institution was now sufficiently well staffed and equipped to deal with present requirements.