AGRICULTURE AND RESEARCH
BENEFITS OF WORK IN NEW ZEALAND MR T. RIGG DELIVERS THE LIVERSIDGE LECTURE (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 15. Important discoveries made in New Zealand about the part played by minor elements in plant and animal nutrition were explained to members of the Science* Congress to-day by Mr T. Rigg, director of the Cawthron Institute, in giving the Liversidge Lecture. This lecture was inaugurated by the Scientific Association from a bequest made by Professor A. Liversidge, of New South Wales, who. for more than 30 years, did keen research work in chemistry in Australia.
"In such investigations New Zealand resaarch workers have mad" a signal contribution to world know-1 icdge," said Mr Rigg. One of the most spectacular discoveries in recent years, Mr Rigg said, had been the demonstration by Australian and New Zealand workers that ccbalt overcame certain stock ailments , belonging to the bush sickness group. I These discoveries had opened up a ] vast field of exploration and had stimulated enquiry in almost every ] country in the world. Giving an example of the material benefit of Research, Mr Rigg said thai an obscure apple ailment had been shown to be due to boron deficiency. A stock ailment at Glenhope, Nelson, and Morton Mains, Southland, had been overcome by the use of cobalt sa.ts, and iodine supplements had b-en used with success for goitrous lands in the Wanaka district, Central Otago. Perhaps ef even giealer significance to New Zealand agriculture had been the demonstration by three independent investigations of the beneficial effects of borax in controlling brown heart in swedes and turnips. "Striking results have already been achieved in the use of boron, iodine, and cobalt compounds," said Mr "This suggests not only that their application in New Zealand agriculture will boot great importance, but it opens up to chemists and agriculturists a great held of enquiry into the status of New Zealand pastures and crops in respect of. these and other minor elements." . *
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 7
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