Last Year's Resolutions.

Some of the resolutions passed at our last Conference have not, I am sorry to say, been acted upon, but, as some of these have again been placed upon our business-sheet, I need not allude to them, but there are two or three which need some little explanation, especially the one referring to the publishing of the names of all judges for our shows, which our Canterbury committee found impossible to carry out, for we had cases where gentlemen accepted the invitation to act and then found out at the last minute before the entries closed that, for various reasons, they would be unable to comply with their promise. Then it was simply a case of falling back upon our reserves, not knowing for certain whether they would act until, perhaps, a day or two before the show took place, and this, I have no doubt, was the experience of all associations. The information our secretary was asked to collect in reference to the production of farinal was to the effect that potatoes could not be grown in this Colony at such a price as would warrant any recommendation being made to start this industry. Though nothing has been done in the way of introducing into our primary schools reading books more descriptive of stock and agriculture, it is satisfactory to state that the Agricultural College, Lincoln, has been formally inspected by the Inspector-General of Education, and is now open to students who are successful in gaining scholarships of sufficient value at our public schools, and I am pleased to state that already there is a scholarship student there.