WAR ON INSECT PESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 227, 25 September 1928, Page 9

WAR ON INSECT PESTS.

COMMONWEALTH'S PLANS.

MUNIFICENT GRANT MADE

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Monday.

"There is nothing Australia needs so much as entomological research," said Dr. R. J. Tillyard, who arrived from San Francisco to-day. Formerly director of the Cawthron Institute, Dr. Tillfard is now director of the Commonwealth Entomological Research Station, Canberra. While in London Dr. Tillyard had several interviews with the Empire Marketing Board, which finally decided to make the munificent grant of £62,500, which, he said, would cover the cost of buildings for the research station and running expenses for about five years. The Comiuowealth Government proposed to vote a similar amount toward the permanent establishment of the scheme. The work of the institution would be confined to absolute basic research into the entomological problems of Australia covering such pests as the blowfly, the buffalo fly, many fruit pests, grass" grubs and noxious weeds. "If we can solve the blowfly or buffalo fly problem," said Dr. Tillyard, "we shall have earned the' upkeep of the station, for 100 years in the saving to the primary industries."