CIRCULAR OF INVITATION. 



Melbourne, 5th March, 1894. 

 SiE, 



I have the honour to inform you that a meeting of 



representatives of Horticultural Societies and Fruit-growers' 

 Associations, at which the Minister of Agriculture will preside, 

 will be held in the Board Room of the Lands Department, on 

 Thursday, 29th inst., at 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the measures which should be adopted for checking the 

 increase of insects injurious to fruit trees, and also for discussing 

 other matters of interest to the fruit industry. It is the wish of 

 the Minister that each Society and Association appoint one delegate, 

 and I shall feel obliged if you will bring the matter under the 

 notice of your Society and furnish me with the name and address of 

 the delegate selected. To facilitate business at the meeting, it 

 would be advisable for each delegate to prepare a paper on any 

 subject which he wishes to bring under prominent notice, and the 

 paper, when read, could be discussed. The subject of the paper 

 should be communicated to me in time for preparation of a pro- 

 gramme. 



I have the honour to be. 

 Sir, 

 Your most obedient Servant, 



D. MARTIN, 



Secretary for Agriculture. 



