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DISEASES IN FRUIT AND PLANTS. 
That this Committee recommend that the regulations of ‘‘ The Diseases i 
Plants Act of 1896,” so far as they relate to the gathering and destruction of 
diseased fruit be enforced. 
That this Committee recommend that steps be taken to enforce the 
destruction of the codlin moth on lines similar to those in force in Tasmania. 
That this Committee recommend that the regulations of “ The Diseases wm 
Planis Act of 1896,” so far as they relate to abandoned orchards, be enforced. 
GRAIN ELEVATORS. 
That this Conference recommend that the Department of Agriculture 
take such action as will result in the reproduction, in the report of this 
Conference, of Dr. Cobb’s article on grain elevators appearing in the Agrt- 
cultural Gazette of New South Wales for February, 1901, so as to afford full 
information to those interested in grain production; and that the Railway 
Department be requested to take such action as will result in the initiation 0 
this system of handling grain. 
VOTES OF THANKS. a 
Votes of thanks were tendered to the mayor and aldermen of Toowoomba, 
to the Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland, the Drayton and To0- 
woomba Agricultural and Horticultural Society, the School of Arts, the 
Gordon Club, the Turf Club, the Press, and the other public bodies of Too- 
woomba for the many facilities and kindnesses they had placed in the way 0 
the Conference as a whole and the delegates individually. Special mentiot 
was also made of the generosity of Mr. George Essex Evans in presenting eac 
delegate with a copy of his book, “The Garden of Queensland”; and of the 
work done by Mr. W. G. Searle, the secretary of the Drayton and Toowoomba 
Agricultural and Horticultural Society, in promoting the comfort of the 
visitors. The Conference concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman, 
the Hon. D. H. Dalrymple, M.L.A., which was suitably acknowledged. 
TRIP TO JONDARYAN. 
By the courtesy of the Railway Department, the delegates were conveyed 
by special train to Jondaryan yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, and afforde 
an opportunity of seeing the land recently thrown open for selection on the 
Gowrie Estate, and the adjacent Devon Park Estate. The opportunity was 
availed of by almost all the delegates and several prominent citizens of To0- 
woomba, including the mayor (Alderman Rowbottom), Alderman Palethorpé; 
the town clerk, and others. At Gowrie several of the delegates, the mayor, 
town clerk, and manager and secretary of the gas company, left the trai? 
and made an inspection-of the Gowrie Coal Mine, the others continuing theif 
journey to Jondaryan, where they were received by Mr. W. J. Burness, of the 
Rosalie Divisional Board. An inspection was made of the butter factory: 
Jondaryan, like most towns, has its eccentric character, who turned up whet 
the train arrived, and caused a good deal of diversion, and likewise did a goo 
stroke of business in the fruit line. During the trip the character and quality 
of the land passed were commented upon in most eulogistic terms, many 0 
the delegates foretelling a great future for Toowoomba and district when thé 
lands are fully. cultivated. ‘The trip was much appreciated, and gave an oppor 
tunity for the exchange of ideas upon many subjects by the delegates, the 
prickly pear especially, coming in for much of the discussion. 
We learn that Mr. F. W. Peek has since received a letter from the chail- 
man of the committee of the Toowoomba Hospital, requesting him to thank | 
the delegates to the Conference for a donation amounting to £13 15s. collecte 
by Mr. Peek from them for the benefit of that institution, and also expressiDg 
the committee’s gratification that the endeavours made by the residents 0 
sed nocrEe to make the stay of the visitors enjoyable were so much appreciate? 
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