FUTURE CONTROL OF RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 16

FUTURE CONTROL OF RESEARCH

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S PROPOSALS KEW PLAN DISCUSSED IN COMMITTEE Discussion on the future of animal research work in New Zealand was taken in committee at yesterday s meeting 11 of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The meeting had before it 3 letter from the Royal Agricultural Society ofNew Zealand, which suggested a plan for unifying and co-ordinating the present research facilities more or less on the lines of the recommendations of the Hammond report. Recommendations from the society and the New Zealand Farmers’ Union were set out in detail in the letter, which expressed concern lest the Hammond report be shelved. Before the motion to go into committee was put, a recommendation in the letter, Mr W. H. Nicholson, commenting on the society’s proposal for direct control, said. “This will mean a Mr Hitler up there in Wellington on research, and he will tell everyone what they have to do.” “There may be a little bit of that, admitted the acting-chairman, Mr W. O. Rennie, who added that the proposed central committee was to be composed half of farmers and half of research men. On Mr Rennie’s motion, the long discussion that followed was taken in committee.