AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
CAUCUS COMMITTEE AT LINCOLN Five farmers, all members of the Government caucus committee set up to examine the progress of agricultural research in New Zealand, visited Lincoln yesterday to see and hear of the work being done at Canterbury Agricultural College and by the Crop Research Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The chairman of the committee is the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Marketing (Mr S. W. Smith) and the other members are Messrs W. H. Gillespie, T. L. Hayman, G. F. Sim, and G. A. Walsh. Mr Smith said yesterday that the committee, which will make an interim report to caucus in the last week of March, wanted to find out lust what was being done in agricultural research, what department was doing it. Who was using the informamation gained, and how it was being disseminated to the farmer. At Lincoln the committee was met by the director of the college (Professor E. R. Hudson) and the heads of departments, who had prepared papers covering their work. In the afternoon the committee visited the Crop Research Division’s plant research station, inspected trial plots, and- met members of the staff.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26671, 4 March 1952, Page 3
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