EFFICIENCY BOARD.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 96, 25 April 1917, Page 7

EFFICIENCY BOARD.

AN AMBITIOUS PRMRAMME.

GOOD WORK BELSFG DONE.

In /tjow of. the fact ■ that, the organisation jof the agricultural side -of his work was now completed, Mr Frostick, Canterbury Commissioner for the Efficiency BoaM, was asked by a .Cliristchurch press representative what were his plans for the immediate future. , Mr Frootick said it was true that the work had been done, t>ut the real work w.is only just com--1 inencing. He alluded to the development of a, greater efficiency .in the jigricultural industry. In this connection ne wanted to make it clear that he was concerned with something more than the war period only. Efficiency would be necessary when the war was past {«nd gone and the work of educating the .farmers in all anatters conducive to a greater efficiency w*)uld oe commenced immediately. A regular 'supply of literature dealing with practical matters and the benefits to be .derived from grer&er co-operation among farmers both in relation to production and marketing, would be sent out to the committees that have ibeen set up. The Agricultural 'Department and liincoln Agricultural College would co-opexate in the work, and capable lecturers would address the committees as to the best kinds of wheat seed to be used. Asked whether he thought the work would endure or whether the ■committees were liable to grow tired, Mr Fro- ick said that he had every confident.' 1 that the .committees would continue %vhole-lieartediy in their work, and in support .of his opinion xjuoted the names of many able.men in the farming community who could •be relied on to sco the thing through. Mr Frostick expressed the .opinion that if the Board received the support from all parties to which it was •entitled great benefits to the nation would result in the direction of a greatly increased production <of wheat r.nd other commodities. The groat question of applying •science to industry had also beea -under consideration, and a very iprofitabb conference had recently been In kl with a large attendance of members of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute. The matters being investigated were among others ■the electro-chemical manufacture of titrates and calcium carbide, the fuller utilisation of the artesian water in Chris tchurch, the fuller utilisation of sewage and .rnste products, the production of albumen, the irrigation of portions of the Canterbury Plains for the production of foodstuffs, in© local r»nnuf act ure of fundamental chemical. products, particularly sulphuric acid, the preservation _oi local fruits to lophice imported troas, urgent aspects of technical orlucatum, flnd a front many other similar questions. 'TSiere was a great field here for the work of the Board, mid it jrould be thoroughly deajt witfe.