ANIMAL RESEARCH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20899, 1 December 1937, Page 6

ANIMAL RESEARCH

BRITISH EXPERT TO ADVISE (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, November 30. Several aspects of animal production and research in New Zealand are to be investigated early next year by Dr. John Hammond, of Cambridge University, who will visit the Dominion on the invitation of the newly established Animal Research Bureau of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. An announcement on these lines was made this evening by the Minister in charge of scientific and industrial research, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. Dr. Hammond, who is due to arrive at Auckland on January JO, will spend approximately eight weeks in New Zealand, after which he will visit Australia to make investigations on behalf of the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Dr. Hammond has an outstanding record as an animal physiologist, particularly in regard to the physiology of the reproduction and factors influencing the carcase quality of sheep, beef cattle and pigs. He has given valuable assistance in examining and preparing reports on trial shipments of New Zealand frozen porkers at Smithfield. Dr. Hammond also has a very sound understanding of general farming practice, and in his research work he successfully combines the spheres of heredity, physiology and nutrition. During his visit he will make a comprehensive tour of the farming districts and research stations, and will give a number of demonstrations and lectures.