SCIENCE AND DAIRYING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 3

SCIENCE AND DAIRYING

provision; of laboratory. , action" being deferred. WELLINGTON.. Tuesday. It) the last annual of tho Direc-tor-General of Agriculture, Dr. C. J. Reakes, it was stated that it had become urgently necessary to provide aj .special laboratory and experimental factory as a. part of the dairy division./ The staff at the present laboratory at) Wallaceville carries out all investigations possible for the division, but then many difficulties, met with in factory work and by the division's instructors! are considered by the department to 1 render separate premises audi staff) necessary in order to enable tho division 1 to carry out its instructional services! with complete efficiency. "This work," said the Director-Gen-eral in his report, " has been authorised! and the sooner it can ba carried out s the better."_ The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. 0. J. Hawken, announced to-day tTint} action in regard to tho establishment Al a special laboratory and experimental factory is being deferred lyatil it is decided on what lines the AgricnltuarlE College Council will proceed with re-i search in connection with the dairy industry at Talmerston North, where the, Batchelor property is being acquired by the Government. It is expected that; the Board! of Agriculture will appoint' its representative in the council within tho next few days, and tho names of Tho four Government nominees will bo announced shortly. >