DISEASE IN STOCK

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1938, Page 2

DISEASE IN STOCK

ADVANCE OF RESEARCH

WELLINGTON, .Tune 8

“I was very surprised to read the remark* attributed to Mr G. 0. Warren, of DaiTield. a member of the Domininn executive of the New Zealand Farmers Union, speaking at the district conference in referent** to farm research and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.” said Mr E. Marsden. secretary of the department.

“T take it that Mr Warren’s reference to farm research does not inc!nde the whole of the activities of (he department.” said Or Marsden. “Dr John Hammond, referred to in the

resolution under discussion, visited New Zealand at. the invitation of the Coiyioil of Scientific and Industrial Research to advise on animal production, and particularly on the nutritional aspects of animal disease. A cony of his report was forwarded eonfidenturt’v to the secretary and president of the Farmers’ Union, a fortnight ago. with the information that it would be nuhlished in F>e forthcoming issue of the Journal of Science and Toelmolngv, which isextvWod to he issued next week. “Dr G. IT. Hacker was a private visitor fo New .Zealand,’’ Dr Mar-den continued, “and nnart from the benefit of discussions with him. so f-T as I know no renorf. on organisation has been received from bim.

“As an ex'*mule of the value of

the department's work in farm research, may I remind Mr Warren that the -"Jving of one of the ouMa tiding Mock disease problems of tho Dominion, namely, mbit It defieiencv, was carried out by a team of workers snonsced b.v the Dcnartanent of Scientific and Industrial Research, and recently the Wool Publicly Committee, of Mr Warren U a moniker, granted £‘o°o for tho furtberaime of this work, and the wider application of tho results. “With regard to the eo-orrUu^mn

of research, it cap he trulv said that there is far more co-operation among the departments, institutions and workers carrying out research in Now Zealand than in any other country, or at any time previously in New Zealand, and the arrangements are snob Hint full and efficient team work is hrc.pcrht to hear on national objectives.”

Dr Marsden said that following a roonest from the Now Zealand Farmers’ Union, tho department had agreed to an advisorv committee to farmers to act in association with the department s activities in Canterbury. Again, the department had offered to inaugurate, in conjunction with and based on the work at. Lincoln College, a comprehensive soil cron survev of the whole of the district a ground work for animal disease survovs, pamonlarlv those of nutritional origin.

Dealing with the reported romnr'-s of another speaker that it mudit he advisable to send a man to Denmark to study methods of oontrdling losses in stock. Dr Marsden said it- should ho noted that .in addition to obtaining Dr Hammond’s renort. the Government bad sent overseas Dr Dunkirk, the head of the Wallncovillo laboratory, for that purpose.

“1 shall he glad at nnv time,” Dr Marsden concluded, “to answer onestious raised by Mr Warren before eit her the central executive of the T«armors Union of any district conference.”