Magazine Article 1979 – Congratulations to Board staff

“Our skill in manipulating plants could be the key to our horticultural future. We could develop new strains of plants better suited to conditions in other countries, as well as developing plants which could be grown here.”

Congratulations to Board staff

FOLLOWING the address of the Apple and Pear Board Chairman, Mr. Ken Kiddle, to the Dominion Conference, Mr. Peter Taylor, the Federation’s Otago Director, said he would like to express thanks to all the Board’s staff.

“We owe the Board a debt of gratitude that probably we have never given the Board before,” he said.

This comment was greeted with acclamation by delegates and visitors to Conference.

Mr. C. Wake (Hawke’s Bay) then moved that congratulations from the Conference be conveyed to the Board’s overseas staff on the highly successful results achieved during the past season. The motion was enthusiastically carried.

Photo caption – Pictured during a tea break at Dominion Conference are (from left) Messrs. P. Taylor (Otago Director), C. Van der Voort (Otago) and C. Wake (Hawke’s Bay).

[Conference held in Tauranga]