Indonesian project

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33037, 3 October 1972, Page 13

Indonesian project

Professor I. E. Coop, the professor of animal science at Lincoln College, will leave soon for Indonesia, where he will begin an investigation into the feasibility of establishing large-scale cattle ranching in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

He is going under the auspices of Asian New Zealand Development Consultants and will be away about six weeks. It is likely that the investigation will be continued early next year by a team including a soil scientist, a tropical pasture specialist, a hydrologist, an economist, and a livestock specialist. Professor Coop will be leading the project, which is similar to one undertaken recently in the eastern islands of Indonesia by Professor 3. D. Stewart, the professor of farm management at the college, who Professor Coop said would be helping in the final assessment.

Notifiable diseases. — Six cases of infective hepatitis were reported in the Christchurch health district in the week ended September 30, the Medical Officer of Health (Dr L. F. Jepson) said yesterday. Other notifiable diseases included one case of hydatids, one of pulmonary tuberculosis, and one of salmonellosis.