AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Use Of Pool Accounts Suggested
MR TENNENT OUTLINES PROPOSAL (New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON. Aug. 21. “We are nlaying for high stakes in the doubling of our production, and for that reason our research work must be encouraged,” said Mr W. B. Tennent (Government, Palmerston North), in the House of Representatives to-dav. continuing his address in the Budget debate.
Mr Tennent advocated the establishment of a board to co-ordinate agricultural research. He said that the Government should not be called on to find all the money for research, but should accept its share, and he suggested that either 1 per cent, or J per cent of the £80,000,000 in the pool accounts be set aside each year and subsidised by the Government and devoted to agricultural research. If New Zealand was a leading producer country it should also lead in research, he said.
Mr Tennent said that he had not yet heard any objection to such a plai. and he invited the Minister • in Charge of the Deoartment of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr R. M. Algie) and the Minister of Agriculture (Mr K. J. Holyoake) to meet farmers’ xe-. presentatives and discuss the plan
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26816, 22 August 1952, Page 8
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