BOTANIST'S VISIT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 57, 30 November 1937, Page 11

BOTANIST'S VISIT

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Study oi Dominion Flora

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, This Day. On a two months' visit. to New Zealand, in the course of a world tour, studying flora, Professor A. J. Eames, of Cornell University, America, arrivcd on the Aorangi from Sydney to-day. He said that within the past twenty•Ive years the viewpoint of farmers, particularly American, had changed' in t'av.our of Utilising the services of uni-versity-trained men in assisting them to. carry out farming operations. He instanced the spraying of fruit trees, •planting of crops, and combating diseases in wheat, oats and other cereals. Professor Eames recalled that one of the outstanding experiences in the course of his tour througjj England, South Africa, and Australia, was a motor-drive through the Kruger National Park, in South Africa, wlxere lions. elephants, antelopes, and other big game came right up to the cardoor, "Of course, you are not allowed t;o get out of tbe car." He remarked with a smile. Accompanied by his wife and son, he proposes to meet bontanists in each New Zealand city.