FARMING RESEARCH.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4871, 31 August 1925, Page 1

FARMING RESEARCH.

NEGLECT BY GOVERNMENT. MOKE INSTRUCTORS WANTED. North Canterbury submitted the following remit at the recent Dominion conference of the Farmers’ Union - “That the funds provided by the Government for research are inadequate, and that the number of agricultural instructors should be increased, it being impossible that the staff as at present constituted can carry out the essential work of supervisingexperiments and disseminating the information gained from isuch work in the districts which , they have to cover.’’ Mr P. J. Roberts said that New Zealand was going back at the rate of 110,000 acres a yeari These lands that were deteriorating might be kept in cultivation if more scientists wereavailable. Mr 0.. C. Wilkinson (Nelson) contended that the Government should subsidise the Cawthron Institute, which was doing most valuable scientific research work. Mr C. C. Munro (Auckland) said it was a reproach to the Government that research work was not being being pushed ahead at a more rapid rate The Departments were not te. blame, as they were under-staffed, and had not sufficient money. It had been said that a Government scientist had discovered an enemy which would destroy blackberry, but he had not been allowed to introduce it' into New Zealand for fear that it m/ight destroy roses,. This statement had never been contradicted. The remit was adopted.