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the stall's ol all departments with a view to ecouomy, desires 

 to urge that, having regard to the organisations now existing 

 throughout the agricultural districts of the country for enlisting 

 the interests of women in the reconstruction of rural life and 

 rural industries, it is essential that the Ministry should retain 

 a, woman officer on its permanent staff." With the substitution 

 of the word " advisable *' for " essential " this resolution was 

 carried bv 17 votes to 12. 



In the May issue of this Journal, particulars were given of 

 the arrangements made as regards the price of home-grown 

 Home rown ^^'^eat of the 1920 crop, and in the issue 

 01^6 grown ^.^^ June it was stated that for the month of 

 Wheat Prices for . , . ; , 



Jul 1921 J line the average price properly receivable 



* by growers was 86s. 6d. per 504 lb. 

 The Ministry is now informed that the Koyal Commission on 

 Wheat Supplies calculate that the cost of wheat imported during 

 April, May and June was equivalent to 82s. per quarter of 

 504 lb. for home-grown wheat of sound milling quality. For 

 the month of July, 1921, therefore, the average price properly 

 receivable by growers for home-grown wheat of sound milling 

 quality will be 82s. per 504 lb. 



This Council, which was first appointed during the War to 



advise the Ministry in regard to important horticultural ques- 



_ ... .. - tions, mainlv of supplv and prices, has 



Reconstitution of . . , ^ j ^, ... 



1.1- TT i.- 11. 1 heen re-constituted and the number oi its 



the Horticultural , n n .^ r X- C 



. , . ^ members reduced. On the formation of 



Advisory Council. r ^ 



the Council, it was found necessary to 



appoint individual horticulturists whose opinions on the many 

 and varied questions of the day were of weight, so that th^ 

 ^linistry might be in possession of the views and experience of 

 •men from all over the country. 



Since the War and with the appointment of a Controller of 

 Horticulture from the industry itself, however, it has becomel 

 obvious that the Council was too unwieldy for present pur- 

 poses. Further, the money at the disjiosal of the Department 

 for the necessary expenses of the Council did not make it pos- 

 sible to call the Council together moie than a very few times a 

 year. The Department no doubt suffered on this account 

 thronu^h the absence of full and direct contact with the 



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