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Dll CUNNINGHAM’S OBJECT. WELLINGTON, May 24. Quarantine issues are to be discussed with Commonwealth and State health authorities by Dr G. H. Cunningham, of the New Zealand Agricultural Department, whose arrival at Sydney was announced in a cable message yesterday. in an interview, an officer of the department stated that the Federal Government was calling a conference of plant disease specialists and that Dr Cunningham had been sent over as the official representative of New Zealand. It was hoped that as a result of the discussions a satisfactory settlement would be reached in regard to embargoes. Dr Cuningham is Government mycologist at the Plant Research Station Palmerston North. He was educated at Victoria University College, where lie took the degree of Master of Science. He joined the Department of Agriculture in 1917, and is widely known as a specialist in plant diseases and in the systematica of New Zealand fungi. He represented New Zealand at the Imperial Mycologists’ Conference in 1929.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 24 May 1934, Page 8
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