TAIERI AIRPORT
Use As Diagnostic Station Urged (New Zealana Press Association! DUNEDIN, November 12. The president of the Otago division of Federated Farmers ; (Mr T. Mcß. Burnside), in welcoming delegates to the New Zealand Grassland Association conference, said how sorry he was to see an excellent site for a diagnostic station—Taieri airport —being offered to the American Antarctic expedition. If the farmers wore able to “push through” the diagnostic station, it would be something of great value to the country as a whole, he said. "After all, where does the finance come from but the land?” he asked. That was more important than dollars. Sir Charles Hercus, Dean of the Otago Medical School, said the airport, with £1 million worth of buildings ready made, the ; Otago Medical School research farm and Invermay close by, could be easily “ploughed” into one great institute of fundamental research, with the climate of opinion, exchange of ideas, and freedom of thought essential for basic research work. It was a “magnificent opportunity” for the country to see its agricultural and livestock problems as a whole, said Sir Charles Hercus.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 13
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