RESEARCH PLANS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 14

RESEARCH PLANS

NEW RUAKURA BUILDING FACIAL ECZEMA TRIALS NO STATEMENT YET The new building housing the .laboratories and offices connected with ;he Ruakura experimental research station was to be completed this week. The construction of the building has oeen proceeding for some months Hid its completion has been delayed. Consisting of two wings, one of which is 341 t. wide and 72l't. deep, and the other 2(ift. wide and lOliit. deep, the building contains six laboratories and 15 offices, it is a onestorey structure' of limber, and tills an important part of the scheme to make Ruakura the chief agricultural research station for the Auckland Province.

Including chemists, veterinarians and other .research workers, clerks, farm supervisors, farm labourers and domestics, there are (!!) people employed on the farm and dwellings and in the laboratories and offiTiic Minister, accompanied by Mr. A. 11. Cockayne, Director-General of Agriculture, and Mr. P. W. Smallfield, director of the Ruakura Research Station, inspected experimental grass plots at Karamu and Ruakura, this week, and reports were received from experimental officers concerning the researches that were being made relating to facial eczema.

The experiments were commenced 18 months ago following a serious outbreak of the disease among the sheep and dairy cows of the Waikato. The Minister said lie was not in a position to make a statement regarding the results of the experiments at the present stage.