ANIMAL RESEARCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26996, 3 February 1949, Page 8

ANIMAL RESEARCH

TRIBUTE TO DOMINION • SCIENTISTS METHODS COPIED ABROAD PA WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. The opinion that New Zealand was leading the world in animal husbandry research and pastoral development work was expressed in, an interview by Lieutenant-colonel A. J. Dennett, Minister of- Agriculture and Fisheries in' Victoria, who is returning to Australia by the Wanganella this week after a month in the Dominion on a speriol mission. Colonel Dennett said that Dr C. F. MoMeekan, superintendent of the aLki.i! research station at Ruskura, cr.d Dr E. Bruce Levy, director of the grasslands division of the Department of Scientific and In-

dustrial Research, were undoubtedly world figures. “I have come to the conclusion that the majority of New Zealanders have failed to recognise the work of their own scientists until their work has been acclaimed overseas,” said the Minister. Certain methods pioneered in New Zealand were unique, and had been copied successfully in the United States and Denmark. It was his intention, on returning to Australia, to institute research on similar lines in his own State, said Colonel Dennett.