N.Z. PASTORAL PRACTICES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 7

N.Z. PASTORAL PRACTICES

POSSIBLE USE IN QUEENSLAND

(Rec. 12.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, Dec. 22. Efforts may be made soon to adapt some New Zealand animal husbandry practices to Australian conditions. This was indicated to-day by Mr W. Webster, director of the Division of Animal Husbandry of the Queensland Department of Agriculture. Mr Webster has returned from a two months’ visit to New Zealand, where he investigated animal husbandry methods and experiments. His survey embraced New Zealand’s beef and dairy cattle industries, pig and fat lamb raising, and the poultry indus-

try. . The investigation was influenced primarily by steps initiated earlier in the year to establish in Queensland two cattle research stations to inquire into breeding and pasture problems of the beef cattle industry. The centres, which will be financed by the Australian Meat Board, will be run by officials of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the State Agriculture Department. , . , Mr Webster said: “I am convinced that there afe many New Zealand practices which can be adapted to a Queensland environment, with profit to our own industries.”