SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
RESTRICTION OF FUNDS ATTITUDE OF COUNCIL (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Commenting at a recent meeting of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on the effect of the cessation ot the Empire Marketing Board’s grants, the chairman, Mr. G. Shirtcliffe, said it would seem that the available funds should be conserved for the purpose of maintaining such fundamental researches as play an all-important part in the development of the Dominion’s natural resources. In this class would be placed plant research, soil survey, animal health, and nutrition. On tho other hand, researcli which was done for particular industries should be financed, for the most part, by the industries themselves, viz., dairy, fruit, wheat, leather, gold, fuel, etc. Referring to the desirableness of modifying policies in various research activities as circumstances warrant, Mr. Shirtcliffe remarked that in primary products, quantitative expansion seemed at present to require halting, and energies directed towards improvements in quality.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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