Meat Research Specialist Leaves N.Z. For Australia

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28896, 16 May 1959, Page 14

Meat Research Specialist Leaves N.Z. For Australia

(New Zeatuna Press Association)

AUCKLAND. May 15 Ruakura animal research station has lost another top-ranking scientist to Australia—the sixth in the last two years He is Dr. R P Newbold, one of the most highly qualified meat research workers in the world and the man who has been responsible for the chemical work on meat at Ruakura . Dr. Newbold sailed today to take up a position with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Sydney where he is to lead a new meat research unit His Australian salary will be considerably larger than the one he was receiving in New Zealand

Dr C. P. McMeekan, superintendent at Ruakura, said today he

was extremely sorry to lose Dr. Newbold who was one of his most valuable men The departure oi Dr Newbold and of five others meant that Ruakura had lost a quarter of its total professional strength and the position was very serious In November last year. Dr McMeekan told the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science that research in this country was suffering from the “cancer” of unrewarding and unrealistic salaries He called for an increase of £5OO a year in the salaries of top men Today. Di McMeekan said: "Several other senior oeople at Ruakura continue to be approached from Australia and it is likely that they will go “New Zealanders going to Australia get immediate increases of £5OO to £lOOO a year and. in the long term, they have prospects of getting two and three times as much as the maximum they could obtain here.”