New Research Bureau At Massey College

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 8

New Research Bureau At Massey College

SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT TO BUILD SPACIOUS PREMISES.

A new, commodious plant research bureau is to bo erected at Massey College for tho Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (in conjunction with the Grasslands Division of the Department of Agriculture). Tho plans are now complete and tenders for the erection of the building behind the dairy factory are being called. This will replace the present congested premises in Rangitikei street. It will 'be a single-storey wooden building, with a tiled roof, and its general construction and lay-out will be in keeping with the ever-increasing work of tho division. One wing will be given over to a chemical laboratory, consisting of one large main laboratory with a smaller room for bio-chemical work. Thero will bo a balance room, fume room, and store, together with the ofiico accommodation of the chemist.

Tho other wing will provide the general ofiico for the clerical staff and tho rooms for the director. There is to bo a largo laboratory for strain certification work, two rooms for pasture survey work, and a large room for plant breeding operations, off which there will be a smaller laboratory. A photographic studio and dark room aro also provided for, with a ladies’ room and a certain amount of store space.

ed for them for ten days in November, sleeping in a room of tho house. He left on November 29, and on the same night witness discovered that £l2 had been taken of £22 contained in a wallet in a drawer. On February 4, returning from the dairy factory, ho found that the whare had been ransacked. A cornet, watch, overcoat and other articles had been taken.

From tho witness box, Mr. Mciklejohu told of an interview on May 21 with de Grut, who then confirmed a statement given at Masterton on April 23, admitting the offences at Otaki. He gave a plan of a locality at Bulls, where the overcoat and cornet had been hidden, to enable their recovery. Police officers succeeded in finding the spot. Do Grut, in his statement made at Masterton, explained that on the same day as he took the money at Otaki, he went to Feilding, and there lost £8 in bets at tho races. He then went to Auckland, but early on tne morning of February 4 went out to Fogdeu’s. There he found the whare door open, and took various articles. He left with the cornet under his arm, wrapped in tho overcoat. He travelled to Bulls the same day, and spent the night in a shed there. Next morning be left for Auckland, where he sold the silver watch for 10s to a man whom he met in the street and who he knew only as “Snowy.” A five cent piece, which was contained with other small coins in a sovereign case, he sold to a second-hand dealer—probably in Queen street, Auckland, although he was not certain—for 3s.

Accused pleaded guilty to all four indictable charges, and was committed to the Supremo Court at Auckland for senience. On the remaining charge, he was remanded to appear at Auckland on May 31.