RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 8

RESEARCH

MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC NEED

SIR E. RUTHERFORD'S VIEWS,

Sir Ernest Rutherford, whose visit to New Zealand has greatly improved his health, is returning to Sydney by tho Maheno.

"I have been much interested," he said to-day, "in the scientific research work being done in New Zealand, and I was pleased to see the progress that is being made in the provision of facilities for that special work. Research work is the most important factor in certain lines of scientific progress, and, while much of course remains to be done in this respect in New Zealand, I was particularly impressed with what is being accomplished at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson. It appears .to me that any further assistance given by the State to this important work could well be by the encouragement of the researches of such institutions. With the preponderating value of. agriculturalaiid pastoral products, it seems clear that it is the duty of New Zealand scientists to devote special attention to these subjects. It is in reality one of the first claims of the country on tho Government to see that every support should be given to investigators that may benefit farm^ crs, and enable them to not only maintain New Zealand's position as a producing country, of the world, but to improve it, especially in view of what is being done in. other prod-ring countries to encourage the producer to work along scientifically correct, lines, and ia the suppression of insect enemies."