“HAVE NOT BEEN FAIRLY TREATED.”
CEREAL RESEARCH STATION TRANSFERRED TO NORTH ISLAND. Complaint is made by Canterbuiy merchants and farmers interested in' Lincoln College that the college has nv>t been fairly treated iii regard to the important matter of cereal research. It is pointed out that Canterbury is the premier cereal-growing province, but the Government, for some obscure reason, has decided to locate the cereal research station at t lie new Massey College. Palmerston North, and trails fer the Canterbury research staff to the north. Two officers have already received notice to proceed to the North Island.
It is said that at Massey College, the area to be used in connection*- with the station is under twenty acres, which appears to the Canterbury men to be v ridiculous proposition. They point but that over 100 acres could be easily acquired near Christchurch for use for experimental wot and that all the facilities available at Lincoln College had been offered to the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon O. J. Hawken > for use in research work. The only reply received is that the station is to be at the new college in the NorJh Island, where cereal growing is hardly. a practical proposition. It is strongly emphasised by the Canterbury critics of the Minister s action that to. get satisfactory results ’n cereal research the field trials should be carried out in the district where the bulk of the crops are grown. Theic houkl be a connecting up and close association between the scientist and the; practical man. and this ideal could ■not be achieved at Massey College. The Minister had apparently decided to have the research staff in the north, while the subject of their studies was in the south. The officers would have to travel back and forwards between Palmerston North and Canterbury. This seemed to be an unnecessarily expensive arrangement, and it was a pity that they were not located where thenwork was. Another subject of remark was that the Massey College was apparently to have a salary list of £IO,OOO, as compared with £4OOO for Lincoln. This was in spite of the agreement that the two colleges were to be treated evenly. There was apparently a deep-rooted determination to boom Massey College, which must react unfavourably on Lincoln. __
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 7
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