AN APPRECIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1933, Page 7

AN APPRECIATION

OF OUR GOVERNOR-GENER AL

LONDON, December 15

“Nature,” the well-known scientific journal, reviewing a reprint of Lord Bledisloe’s Cawtlmm lecture, says: “New Zealand is singularly forunate in having in its Governor-Geneial, Lord Bledisloe, a keen and distinguished agriculturist, thus representing in the highest governing and administration circles one ot the most important industries of the Dominion. “This is the first time that a Govern-or-General of a . Dominion lias delivered within it the cliist scientific oration of the year, and as one would have expected, in collating the agricultural research of the past three years, as Lord Bledisloe did in the lecture, the economic importance of agricultural research has been emphasised from an essentially broad though authoritative point of view, thus taking into consideration not only the British Empire, but also other countries. The amount of detailed fact Si, with commentaries, concerning agriculture, which have been assembled into this lecture, is scarcely short of amazing.

Lord Bledisloe has left no stone unturned in his search for data. Every aspect of agricultural and horticultural research is reviewed, and there is scarcely a research department, institute, or station within the- British Empire which is not considered and its recent work discussed, Other COUtt* tries outside the Empire, such <\s Denmark, Germany, the United Holland, Finland, and others,..,, have been combed for results and duly considered. Apart from tile general consideration of horticulture, arable and dairy farming and agriculture, and their more detailed aspects such as the study of the constitution of wool, vitamins, etc., researches in connection with more specialised Empire products such as sugar and tobacco, are also reviewed.”