COLD STORAGE PROBLEMS
RESEARCH WORK IN EUROPE DOMINION SCIENTISTS TOUR The great attention being given in all European countries to the study of fungus diseases in connection with cold storage products was commented on by Mr. J. C. Neill, mycologist at the Plant Research Station, Palmerston North, who returned by the Imperial Star yesterday after nine months abroad. Mr. Neill acted as the Dominion representative at the Imperial Mycological Conference in London. During his stay in «\"arope he visited all the important research- stations iili Great Britain. Holland, Germany and Denmark, and made special studies of plant moulds in so far as they alFected cold Storage products from the Dominion.
- Many men were employed on research work along mycologieal lines in all the chief European countries, Mr. Neill said, more attention being given to the study on the Continent than in Great Britain or in New Zealand. He had met many experts and had been able to collect much data t'hut might be useful in the solution of the special problems of the Dominion. He had also spent some time at the Cold Storage Research Station at Cambridge University, which was subsidised by the Meat Producers' Board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22025, 4 February 1935, Page 5
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