PLANT RESEARCH

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 6

PLANT RESEARCH

DOMINION’S PASTURES

NEW ZEALAND COMMITTEE

-7Bv Telegraph—Special to Standard). WELLINGTON, May 7. The first meeting of the New Zealand Plant Research Committee is to be held in Wellington this week. Under its direction, research in connection With economic plants mil be conducted by several institutions and in close assocatiou with the Aberystvcli research station, the lending or gam < - tio.il in the Empire, in the mvcstigaton of grasses and closers. The committee will also be in touch with tlie operations of the Edinburgh station which conducts similar wortA general programme for New Zealand will be submitted to the committee bv Air A. 11. Cockayne, director of the fields division of the Department or Agriculture, who will be in charge or the work. He has been appointed director of research and will hold tnat position in addition to his present duty, thus securing complete tioii between the research and the field work of the Department of Agricul ture’s officers. . The committee comprises Dr. Keanes. Director-General of the Department ot Agriculture; Air AY. Perry, Masterton, a member of the Board of Agnculture *, Hon. Geo. h owlds and 1 rofessor Peren, of the Massey Agricultural College;. Air T of the Cawthron Institute; Dr. H. H. Allan, of the Feilcling Agricultural school; Air AAL D Hunt, Wellington, and Air C. H. Hewlett, Christchurch representing the seed merchants of the Dominion, while Air Hewlett is also a member of the Lincoln College Board of Governors. • , , "Some appointments will be made of research officers whose salaries wiU.be paid from the Empire Marketing Board’s grant for Imperial agricultural research.