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Authority On Vegetables (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 11. A New Zealander who is a leading world authority on kumaras has resigned from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to take up a post at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
He is Mr D. E. Yen, head of the Government Vegetable Research Station at Otara for the last 13 years. Mr Yen, a graduate of Massey College, has travelled throughout the Pacific, Southeast Asia and South America studying the cultivation of the kumara in an attempt to trace the migration of Pacific peoples. His research was financed in part by the Rockefeller Foundation. In his new post, as ethnobotanist at the Bishop Museum, a world centre for Pacific research, Mr Yen hopes to look into the origins of many of the cultivated plants that have not yet been extensively studied, such as the yam. Mr Yen will leave for Honolulu with his wife and family in July.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31058, 13 May 1966, Page 7
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