BETTER FACILITIES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4186, 15 September 1939, Page 8

BETTER FACILITIES

AGRICULTURAL TRAINEES. RUAKURA AND WALLACEVILLE. "In pursuance of the Government’s policy of providing better and increased facilities for research the erection of new laboratory buildings at the Ruakura and Wallaceville Animal Research Stations were put in hand during the past financial year,” stated the Hon. R. Semple in the Public Works Department report, presented to the House of Representatives this week. “It is anticipated that both buildings will be ready for occupation in the early future. "The now laboratories embody modern ideas in lay out, and the facilities that will be available will be appreciated by officers whose work in the past has been so greatly handicapped in this respect. "The Government is appreciative of the fact that the accommodation and facilities at both stations are still somewhat inadequate, and consideration is being given to the extent and nature of the extensions that will be necessary at Ruakura to cope with the expansion of investigations at that centre, and to the provision at Wallaceville of facilities for the study of additional problems in animal disease and nutrition.

“A commencement has also been made with a programme of work designed to extend and modernise the staff and trainees quarters at Flock House, which a short time ago was acquired by the Government. The work already undertaken comprises the erection of new staff quarters, and the provision of a new kitchen and dining room, which will allow of the original Flock House building being remodelled and converted into dormitories for the trainees, whose sleeping quarters were far from satisfactory for an institution of this kind.”