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N.Z. Scientist To Leave (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. The only animal geneticist working in New Zealand a: present. Dr. P. J. Brumby, of the Ruakura Animal Research Station, will take up a post overseas with the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Dr. Brumby, an Australian who has been at Ruakura for 10 years, will establish and head an animal production research unit in Cyprus for the United Nations special agency. The unit, one of six to be set up on Cyprus at a cost of about 2.000.000 dollars, will ultimately serve the whole eastern Mediterranean area. Dr. Brumby’s work over the last 10 years has been concerned with the breeding of better animals in the field and basic genetic studies in the laboratory an animal breeding. “My main reason for leaving is the personal challenge this new job offers—the challenge of trying to do something where it really matters,” he said at Ruakura today. The increased salary was not a major factor, but he would be getting “considerably more than twice my present salary.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29938, 27 September 1962, Page 14
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