ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 202, 23 May 1936, Page 11

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Proposal to Co-ordinate Research Work

GOVERNMENT TO BE APPROACHED The appointment of a committee to co-ordinate research work into animal husbandry in New Zealand is to be recommended to the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister in Charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. If the committee is set up it is proposed that it should embrace animal nutrition, health, wool and all other branches of animal husbandry. A decision to approach the Government was reached at the conference convened by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which was held in Wellington this week. Representatives of Massey Agricultural College Palmerston North, and Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, attended the conference, when proposals were fully discussed. At present research work into am* mal husbandry is carried on in three quarters Massey College, Lincoln College and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research all being interested. The co-ordination of this work under one central committee, it is felt, would add greatly to the value of the work, as it is hoped that by the adoption of this policy any possibility of overlapping would be excluded, and a greater measure of co-operation among research workers would be maintained. Quite recently a similar co-ordination has been established in plant research work in the Dominion.