SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1927, Page 4

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

UTILISATION OF DOMINION COALS WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. Negotiations between the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Federation have resulted in the establishment of a fund of £2OOO to enable fuller research to be made into the more extended utilisation of New Zealand coals and into their suitability for various purposes. The fund, which will be available for three years, is made up of annual contributions of £IOOO each from the Government and the Coal Mine Owners’ Federation, and a programme of work for the period has been mapped out. A feature will be the establishment of a bureau of information for fuel utilisation, which will keep in touch with the results of research work in other countries, and provide up-to-date information on the subject. Assistance in that direction will be forthcoming from a liaison officer, Air 11. O. Askew, a New Zealander who is working at the fuel research station at Greenwich, and who will report on the application of work at that station to New Zealand coal and New Zealand conditions. NEW ZEALAND FLAXt

The Government has made a grant of £IOO to enable Dr J. S. Ycates. a former Victoria University College student, who has just completed a distinguished course at Cambridge, to investigate problems affecting the breeding and selection of New Zealand flax varieties. Dr Yeate.s has extensively studied the cytology division of biology. which provides most useful fundamental information in regard to breeding and selection of economic plant, and bis knowledge will be used for this purpose in connection with flax varieties. Experiments already carried out. in New Zealand have drawn attention to the possibilities New Zealand pliormium offers and extension by Dr Yeates of these activities is expected to have an important result on flax vields. DAIRYING PROBLEMS.

The appointment is announced as dairy research chemist, of Dr Frederick H. M’Dowall. The appointment will date from July 21st. 1928, and Dr M’Dowall will lie stationed at Palmerston North. Born in Southland, Dr .M'Dowall had a brilliant academic record both at Otago (.'university and at the University of London. He holds the degree of Af.Se. (New Zealand) with first class honours in chemistry, and in 1927 was awarded the D.Sc. degree of London I'niversity for research in organic chemistry. the subject of bis iliesis being “An Investigation on the Oil Constituent of tile New Zealand Ngaio.” Far the past six years he has been engaged continuously on research in organic chemistry at Otago and London Universities, at. the latter of which institutions he now holds tile aopoiiitnieni of lecturer in organic chemistry. Before bis return to the Dominion Dr APDotfall v. ill have an opportunity of studying at the Reading Dairying Research Institute New Zealand dairying problems at the London end.

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