DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 6

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST.

SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD AT WELLINGTON.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 26. Sir Ernest Rutherford, the distinguished scientist, and ■ Lady Rutherford, arrived in Wellington this morning by the Limited express. The visitors were met and welcomed at Thorndon station by Mr A. C. Gifford, president of the Wellington Philosophical Society, Mr P. Marshall, president of the New Zealand Institute, Dr. E. Mardsen, assistant-Direc-tor of Education, and Professor D. C. H. Florance, Professor of Physics, Victoria College. During their brief stay in Wellington, Sir Ernest and Lady Rutherford will be the guests of Professor and Mrs Florance. Sir Ernest has just completed a visit to his father and mother at New Plymouth and to his brothers and sisters in other parts of the North Island. Last week wa3 spent with his brother at Hamilton and with several other relatives in that district. For the past six years Sir Ernest has been Director of Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge ‘University. Sir Ernest gave a brief, informal talk to the students of Victoria College this afternoon and this evening a reception was given to Sir Ernest and Lady Rutherford at the , college. AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW-, NEW ZEALAND’S GREAT. PROGRESS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 26. Sir Ernest Rutherford said that during his present tour of New Zealand he had visited Auckland. Taranaki and Waikato. “I have been much struck,” he said, “by the great advances which have been made in the clearing of the country since I paid a short visit to this country just before the war. I have noticed great improvements in tho farm lands of the provincial districts I have mentioned. That improvement is partially due to clearing and draining, and particularly to the use of the various fertilisers, which appear to have had a marked effect on returns from the land.

“When I was here eleven years ago,” continued Sir Ernest, “the milking machine was just coining in, but I now find that it is universal, and in a great majority of cases there is also a local separator. The growth of towns like Auckland, New Plymouth and Hamilton has been very obvious. In travelling through the country one observes improvements in main roads, although in a number of places there is si.il great room for improvement. During my motor journey- from To Kuiti to New Plymouth I was struck with the fine road that has been made from Mokau to New Plymouth.”