RESEARCH WORK.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19972, 5 July 1930, Page 19

RESEARCH WORK.

EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD. . SUBSIDISED STUDIES IN NEW Zealand: In the annual report of the Empire - Marketing Board, which was summarised in The Pbess this week, special attention is given to the scientific work which, it is fostering in the United Kingdom and in the oversea countries of the Empire. The - special researches which the Board is sufsi? dising in New Zealand were outßbed to a reporter yesterday by ihe'.iPrbfesor of Chemistry at Canterbury College (Dr. JEL. G. Denham). ■' , The Marketing Board, said Dr. Denham, had made valuable contributions chiefly to the Plant Research Station. (Palmerston North); to an tion of the mineral deficiencies.' of pastures (Cawthron Institute and-the Agricultural Chemist, Mr B;--' C. Aston); to a study of noxious (Cawthron Institute) ;* and to vakidttt. investigations of cold storage .problems. Tho investigation of mineral deficiencies was world-wide, New Zealand .contributing its own results .to the general study. The chief centres of this > research were in the North Island sbout the Te Kuiti and Rotorua districts. The Board had-sent a team ofjanen to the Dominion to study cold storage, particularly-as abni&pg to mutton ,and fruit; Each o&Hgjjs&e , researches was "fcjr tfapvDepartioent of Scientific- B£sfeans .trith funds • supplied by -the. industry eoxft. cGrned, the Govornment, . -*nd -' the ' Board. In general; the - Board was prepared to assist-^nj^'work" - of research or investigation which would be of fundamental Empire as a whole* "■• ' ' , Dominion's Bureauofß^seaicJJ. fhe Imperial Agricultural ffcrauch Conference iafc XiondpJi v a was attended on the Dominion** beH&lf * by Dr. C. J; Reakesand Mr RSgg. inaugurated a -scheme l of ' Imperial- bureaux for the collection and - distfibation of scientific data.';"Tho Nfcw ;$»• ' land Government approved' a%rarar;pf> £1250 to enable the jpttrticipate in the scheme willf%(dce ■ available herd the results of j&ptfj&bes . ufldertaken parte'J world The following Mew Zealand 1 coi i espondciitg were appointed different subjects for resfearck l ; —Soil ■ ~i science, Mr T. Rigg, animal attrition, Mr Aston; Mr. -C. S; 'Professor F. W. Dry r_agripultural parasitology, ' Mr C. S. Hopkirk; plant kef&aSs, Professor F; W. Hilgendorf ah<T Mr F. Bruce Levy: fruit production, - Director of . the Hortumltural Division _ .of the . Department of jMr •J. A.'Campbell): economic H. H. Allan. . The Empire Marketing- Board - . deeply interested in the TPork oPth* ; Research Conference and - .. buted to it in Denham. The establishment ,6f s; ;«w - bureaux was•: primarily for thfr.inter- "a change of information from scientUEo .* research, but also for the exchange ot t> workers,, experimental materia],;and - meetings. Dr. Denham. described whole, work as being ven? \ indeed. The scheme prsv<;i}t -a .f .great deal of overlapipng an<f oorOfdin- -1 ate the scientific research of the ;iebol* i'< '■• Empire..".'"..".-' ' * ■