FRUIT RESEARCH WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20724, 18 November 1930, Page 11

FRUIT RESEARCH WORK.

THE IMPERIAL BUREAU.

SECURING PERSONAL CONTACT

[BY TET.EORAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Monday.

Engaged at present on a tour of the Empire to establish personal contact with correspondents in most parts of it, Mr. R. G. Hatton, director of the Imperial Bureau of Fruit Production and of ihe East Mating fruit research station, arrived in Wellington by the Maunganui to-day, accompanied by Mrs. Hatton. While in New Zealand Mr. Hatton will visit and inspect the various fruit growing districts and will advise and confer on the subject of fruit research in connection with the scheme recently launched by the Government. He has already visited Canada, where ho inspected fruit research institutes and famous fruit growing areas. After leaving New Zealand he will visit Australia, and return to England via Java and Ceylon.

The Imperial Bureau of Fruit Prod notion, Mr. Hatton explained, has its official correspondents in all parts of the Empire. This personal visit would be of value to the bureau in its work and would enable it to deal more effectively with requests received from correspondents. Subsequently Mr. Hatton's survey of the conditions obtaining in different parts of the Empire would furnish it with data that would make possible more valuable replies to requests for information from any particular district. That, he said, was the main purpose of his tour.