TROPICAL AGRICULTURE
RESEARCH .IK lUEEHSLAND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 11. (Received August 12, at XO.iJO a.iu.) Work of special benefit to Queensland will bo developed by tbe Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, following the appointment of Mr Geoffrey Evans to the position of tbe principalship of the college. Mr leans, who is Director of Cotton Culture in Queensland, will give immediate attention to disease in bananas, citrus diseases, and sugarcane production. He will also co-operate in cotton research. The station is evolving disease resisting strains. [Mr Geoffrey Evans, M.A., is a man of wide experience in tropical agriculture. Alter graduating at Cambridge University bo was appointed to the university agricultural staff. Then be served lor some years in the Indian Agricultural Service, and was appointed principal of the Agricultural College at Nagporc, afterwards taking the position of Director of Agriculture in Bengal. During the war he saw active service in India am; Mesopotamia, and was Director of Agriculture to the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19633, 12 August 1927, Page 5
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