TRIP ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 289, 5 December 1936, Page 13

TRIP ABROAD.

N.Z. GRASSLANDS EXPERT. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Mr. E. Bruce Levy, director of the Grasslands Division of the Plant Research Bureau, lias been appointed by the Government to represent New Zealand at the fourth International Grasslands Congress, which will be held at the Welsh plant-breeding station at Aberystwyth, Wales. Mr. Levy will sail for England late this month. The conference will be held under the presidency of Professor R. G. Stapledon, Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research. In announcing the Government's decision, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan said: — "This congress, which is held every three years, is one of the important scientific conferences of the world, and the fact that it is being held this year in Great Britain increases its significance from an Imperial point of view. "The Government has recognised that Mr. Levy's experience and the active part which he has played in the past ensure that he will fittingly repiesent the Dominion at the conference, and furthermore an opportunity will be given Mr. Levy while abroad to study all the latest developments in grassland research which are proceeding at such stations as Aberystwyth, Jeallotts Hill, Rotliamsted, the National Institute of Agriculture and Botany at Cambridge, and elsewhere in Great Britain. While in Europe Mr. Levy will visit research stations in Denmark, Sweden and Finland, in all of which work of direct interest to New Zealand is in progress."