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This division has been documented as a Head Office as it had significant autonomy and a network of regional offices reporting directly to it. 
Date of establishment is based on Secretary's of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists Circular No.1, dated 16 September 1909. Also, an Evening Post article entitled "Department of Agriculture - Reorganisation Scheme" (Volume LXXVIII, Issue No.68, 17 September 1909) states "The scheme of reorganisation of the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists, has now been completed, and will come into operation at once."
The functions of the Horticulture Division remained essentially unchanged despite various restructurings at Head Office level throughout the early and mid 20th century. It has been decided to treat this as one continuous entity until the major restructure of Agriculture in 1971-1972. 


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Nightingale, Tony, White Collars and Gumboots: A History of the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, 1892-1992, The Dunmore Press Limited, Palmerston North, 1992. 
    
The New Zealand Department of Agriculture - Its History, Constitution, Functions, Organisation and Activities, produced in-house by the Department of Agriculture, c.1950 [Archives Reference: ABMH W4524/2] 
    
Director-General's Circulars, 1909-1919 [Archives Reference: ABMH 22339, W4524/2] 
    
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry website, http://www.maf.govt.nz/MAFnet/profile/businesses/timeline.html (accessed 27-29 April 2009). 
    
Paper Past website (National Library of New Zealand), http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast (accessed 4 May 2009) 

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 Establishment
The Horticulture Division was established on 16 September 1909 as the Orchards, Gardens and Apiaries Division when the Departments of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce, and Tourists and Health Resorts were merged1. It inherited the functions of the former Agriculture Department's Biology and Horticulture and Viticulture Divisions. In August 1915 the name of the division was changed to the Horticulture Division2.
Functions and Responsibilities
The Horticulture Division undertook the following activities:

    
Administration of regulations governing grading, packing and marketing of New Zealand grown fruit on local markets; 
    
Registration of orchards, nurseries, and apiaries; 
    
Supervision of fruit cold stores, pre-cooling and loading of fruit for export, advice on cool-storage; 
    
Grading of honey for export; 
    
Instruction in beekeeping and honey production; 
    
Inspection of apiaries for disease; 
    
Instruction and demonstration in fruit growing, pruning, spraying, and packing; 
    
Experiments with new fruits, varieties, fruit stocks, and spray treatments; 
    
Supervision of packing and grading of fruit for export; 
    
Inspection of orchards and nurseries for control of disease; 
    
Inspection of fruit and vegetables in local markets; 
    
Inspection of imported and exported fruit and plants; 
    
Plant quarantine fumigation, and destruction; 
    
Instruction in and organisation of commercial vegetable production and market gardening; 
    
Instruction in vine growing, manufacture and blending of wine, making of cider and vinegar; 
    
Inspection of vineyards and glasshouses; 
    
Instruction in citrus culture; 
    
Instruction in growing small fruits, flowers, hedges and shrubs and management of the home garden; 
    
Collection of orchard tax; 
    
Vine growing, sale of vines and stocks, manufacture and sale of wine, vine experimental work (Te Kauwhata Horticultural Station)3. 

Structure
The Division was headed by a Director, who was responsible for its day-to-day operations. The Director reported to the permanent head of the Department, the Director-General of Agriculture. An Assistant Director supported the Director in the running of the Division. 



Staff of the Division also consisted of: District Supervisors based at Auckland, Palmerston North, Nelson, and Dunedin; Fruit Standardisation Officer; Cool Storage Officer; Senior Apiary Instructor; Honey Grader based in Auckland, and Apiary Instructors; Orchard Instructors; Fruit Instructors; Instructor in Vegetable Culture; Vine and Wine Instructor based in Auckland; Citiculturist; Horticulturist; Manager, Te Kauwhata Horticultural Station and Station Staff4.
Disestablishment
In November 1971 the Horticulture Division was merged with the Farm Advisory Division and the plant health group of the Research Division to form a new division of the Department of Agriculture, the Advisory Services Division5.

    
Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists - Secretary's Circular No.1, 16 September 1909; p.3, The Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 68, 17 September 1909, "Department of Agriculture - Reorganisation Scheme", http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19090917.2.28&srpos=1&e=01-09-1909-31-09-1909--10-PubMetaEP-1----2%22Department+of+Agriculture%22-article (accessed 7 May 2009) 
    
Secretary's Circular No.120, 23 August 1915 [Archives Reference: ABMH 22339, W4524] 
    
The New Zealand Department of Agriculture - Its History, Constitution, Functions, Organisation and Activities 
    
ibid 
    
p.29, H.29, AJHR 1972 Vol II 

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