RESEARCH WORK.
Development of Natural Resources. Per Pres* A ssoofa tfon WELLINGTON, April 7. Commenting at a 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 (Mr G. Shirtcliffe) said it would seem that the available funds should be conserved for the purpose of maintaining such fundamental researches as would play an all-important part in the development of the Dominion’s natural resources.
In this class would be placed plant research, soil survey, and animal health and nutrition. On the other hand, research which was done for particular industries should be financed for the most part by the industries themselves, namely, dairy, fruit, wheat, leather, gold, fuel, etc. Referring to the desirableness of modifying the policies in various research activities as the circumstances warranted, Mr Shirtcliffe remarked that in primary products quantitative expansion seemed at present to require halting and energies should be directed towards an improvement in quality.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 15
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