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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 66, 15 September 1916, Page 2

Iv the opinion of jVliv George George, Directo. of Technical Education in Auckland, sufficient encouragement is not given to scientific research either in New Zealand or at Home. Speaking in Auckland this week, he said : " What more striking example could we wish for than that of Professor Thomas, late of the Auckland University College, whose research many years ago on the liver fluke id sheep was probably worth millions to sheep farmers of New Zealand '! I believe I am right in saying that the value! placed upon this work by an enlightened Government was an honorarium of £.100. Again, the careful research of Miv-A-. W. Green, late experimentalist at the ISuakura Government experimental farm, was the means of his obtaining an oat which appears to be practically rust-proof. Apart altogether from the immense value that this oat will be to farmers of New Zealand, the money derived by the Government from the .sale of the oat for seed purposes will, in a little while, even if it has not already, done so, pay for Ruakura farm oyer and over again. Yet I do not remember ever having seen on the Estimates that Mr. Green had been granted by the Government even a modest honorarium of £100. But why should he be? He was only a Government servant, probably receiving a magnificent salary of £4 or £5 a week —and the, work was carried out iv tho Government's time."