WHEAT RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24955, 16 August 1946, Page 4

WHEAT RESEARCH INSTITUTE

PLEA FOR MORE MONEY EXPANDING DEMANDS “I feel we are in a straight-jacket,” the chief chemist of the Wheat Research Institute (Mr E. W. Hullett) told the institute’s committee on Wednesday when urging the institute’s need for more money. The finance of the institute comes from the Government (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) and industry (bakers, millers, wheatgrowers) on a £ for £ basis, but Mr Hullett’s remarks were addressed primarily to Dr. R. O. Page, who is a member of the council of the department.

Mr Hullett said that more money was needed to allow the institute to expand needed research work, employ more research staff, and to fulfil even the growing routine services. ' Dr. Page agreed that the work of research associations constituted a high return for the expenditure on them. The institute, however, was like others similarly placed—it could approach the industry, and if more money was obtained from the industry it would give the institute better leverage in asking for more from the Government. The straight jacket argument might apply at the moment, or this year, but when the industry reached really good periods there would be ample money. Mr P. R. Talbot said that the chief factor affecting the wheatgrowing industry was the weather, not the price. The weather was the main factor on his own place why he had not had the wheat.