Research to Develop Industry

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 10

Research to Develop Industry

GOVERNMENT’S POLICY DAIRYING AND COAL (From Our IZcndcnt Jlfponn-i , WELLINGTON. Mondav The Government’s poUcy of scientific research in relation to iif lr ‘ try has been advanced another ste-‘'v' announcements made to-day rejtarr ' the plans for the cevelopment 0 7 line of work.

The appointment as dairy- rese chemist of Dr. Frederick H. denotes the inauguration of ther*" nion’s dairying research prorra-C' The appointment will date from i"' 31. 1928. and Mr. McDowall will be e tioned at Palmerston North. Mr v ' Dowall had a brilliant academic reec-V both at the Otago University ani the University of London. For the six years he has been engaged’ eonhmT' ously on research in organic chemistat the Otago and London Universii at the latter of which institutions . now holds the appointment of lecture in organic chemistry. Before his turn to the Dominion, Dr. McDo-e-' will have the opportunity- of studvir" at the Reading Dairying Rese)-* Institute.

NEW ZEALAND COALS As the outcome of negotiations b, tween the Department of Scientific Industrial Research and the New zA land Coal Mine Owners' Federation, i fund of £2,000 has been established, 4 enable fuller research to be made w, the more extended utilisation of Zealand coals. The fund, which will be available three years, is to he made up of an-usi contributions of £I,OOO each from fiv Government and the Coal Mine Ownin' Federation, and a programme of wtA for the period has been mapped out ■ feature will be the establishment of, bureau of information for fuel utiliia* tion. which will keep In touch win suits of research work in other coin, tries and provide up-to-date iif Orel] tion on the subject. Assistance in this direction wfl: ■» forthcoming from a liaison officer, Mr H. O. Askew, a New Zealander wiio u working at the fuel research staticGreenwich, London, who wli: r-;por a the application of the work at that itttion to New Zealand coal and New ilej land conditions. BETTER FLAX YIELDS A grant of £IOO has been madt b, the Government to enable Dr. J. g. Y’eates. a former student of Victoria University College, who has just conpleted a distinguished course at Cambridge, to invesigate problems affechos the breeding and selection of New Zealand flax varieties. Dr. Yeates has ex. tensively studied cytology, a division of biology which provides most useful fundamental information in regard to the breeding and selection of economic plants, and the investigations he win now undertake are expected to have aa important result on flax yields.