SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Southland Times, Issue 22294, 9 April 1934, Page 4

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

CESSATION OF GRANTS. MAINTAINING FUNDAMENTAL WORK. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, April 7. Commenting at the recent meeting of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on the effect of the cessation of the Empire Marketing Board’s grants the chairman, Mi- Shirtcliff, said it would seem 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 the other hand, research which was done foxparticular industries should be financed for the most part by the industries themselves, that was, dairy, fruit, wheat, leather, gold, fuel, etc. Referring to the desirability of modifying policies in various research activities as circumstances warranted, Mr Shirtcliff remarked that in primary products quantitative expansion seemed at present to require halting and energies directing towards improvement in quality.