SOIL CONSERVATION
IMPORTANCE REALISED IN AUSTRALIA SIR THEODORE RIGG RETURNS FROM SCIENCE CONGRESS “The importance of soil conservation is now being realised in Australia and steps are being taken to conserve soil by afforestation, by the limitation of stock on dry pasture areas, and by river control. Measures like those are necessary here in New Zealand,” said the director of the Cawthron Institute for Scientific Research, Nelson, Sir Theodore Rigg. in an interview yesterday on his return to Wellington by the Awatea from Sydney after attending the recent Science Congress in Canberra. Sir Theodore and the mycologist at the Cawthron Institute, Dr. Kathleen Curtis, represented the institute at the congress, and were naturally chiefly interested in the agricultural sections. Among the subjects discussed was the soil erosion problem in Australia, and reference was made also to the problem in the Dominion.
| Already the Department of Scientific , and Industrial Research in New Zea- | 'and had set up a committee to investi- | Kate the problem. Sir Theodore said, and it was important that it should receive the careful consideration here that it had received in Australia. Work tlv*re had been directed to establishing the magnitude of the problem, and that no doubt would be one of the first questions to which the New Zealand committee would address itself. Sir Theodore said there had also been a very interesting symposium of papers on pasture problems in Australia. and on virus diseases, which were ; equally important to New Zealand as to Australia Many aspects had been handled by the Australian experts. One of the most valuable opportunities the congress provided was that it enabled me to meet my colleagues in agricultural science in Australia.” Sir Theodore Rigg said. “On the animal side agricultural science in Australia is becoming quite strongly organised, and it is certainly very necessary for New Zealand to take up the work on a comparable scale. It is partly a question of finance and partly of organisation. requiring the very essential expert assistance.” At the congress Sir Theodore met Sir John Russell, Director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, and of the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science. England, and Professor J A. Prescott, head of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 8
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