FRUIT RESEARCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 303, 18 November 1930, Page 6

FRUIT RESEARCH.

LEADING HORTICULTURALIST’S VISIT. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) AVELLINGTON, Nov. 18. The director of East Mailing Horticultural Research Station, Mr R. G. Hatton, arrived by the Maunganui on a brief visit to New Zealand in order to investigate similar work with the object of closely co-operating with the Dominion research effort. East Mailing is already well known to New Zealand fruitgrowers owing to Mr Hatton’s important original work in connection with apple root stocks. He remarked to the “Standard’s” correspondent that long before deciding to come to New Zealand he realised that there must be a highly efficient organisation behind the fruit export owing to the excellence of the product, uniformity in quality and the good appearance of the packages. Mr Hatton is obliged to leave New Zealand by December 6 and has consequently planned a limited itinerary, which includes a visit to Hawke’s Bay, where he will address fruitgrowers. He will be in Auckland on Friday evening and will meet fruitgrowers, and intends returning to AA 7 ellington for the fruit export conference on November 25. A visit to Nelson will follow and Mr Hatton, prior to leaving New Zealand, will inspect the Massey Agricultural College at Palmerston North.