ACRICULTURAL RESEARCH.
• i&pealving. 'at'Otautau. on '.Thursday,'- the ..Hon., R; .M'Nab (says' a Press -Association message);-said''.it '.was-n .'matter -of.!necessity ;to; open for- farmers ; a venues 'of knowledge .which"they:could not afford 1 the' time ', or the J^bpur'to.'acquire; from their own experience. .The 'time, was coming when 1 ' investigations pursued in other countries, would he no longer profitable. ' Opportunities niust'be provided for our own •scientific men to pursue investigations ;of; conditions 'obtaining in' New 'ZcjTland. Such work could be'done.-.onlv under ,the. auspices of'thn Agricultural Department, which the. Minister referred' io enthusiastic ally as being' the "most 'important in the (rovernmphtr hi?, conviction . being : that the future wealth of, this cn.untrv ■ would depend more: on products of the .soil than' on the work of'.man/s hands.; Itrwas time the people? bf'the country aide/1 the Government to put the man, who intended to earn his bread on tho.land, on'an oqual footing as-regards opportunities ..for learning' his profession with those entering legal and medical and other professions. ;■.-..■-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 3
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