FRUIT RESEARCH WORK

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 9

FRUIT RESEARCH WORK

NEW SCHEME OUTLINED NELSON AREA TO BE BOUGHT Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The Government has decided to make provision for a definite scheme of fruit research. Cabinet recently approved of a grant which, with assistance from the Fruit Export Control Board and the Empire Marketing Board, will enable an orchard property of 72 acres near Nelson to be acquired, the area to be invested in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The Horticultural Division of the Agricultural Department and the Cawtliron Institute will now be able to conduct and extend their field investigations in co-operation in the centre of an important fruit-growing area. The orchard will also be available for the instruction both of the officers of the Horticulture Divfsion and fruitgrowers. The Marketing Board has a grant of £1.500 for the actual maintenance of research work for five years and this will be subsidised on a pound for pound basis by the Government. The Fruit Research Committee has already prepared a scheme of investigation.

The cool storage investigations of the Cawtliron Institute and the Frtiit Research Committee on vessels is also to be extended in co-operation with the Cambridge low- temperature research station. " The necessary scientific assistance to fruitgrowers to enable them to overcome insect and other pests, to use manures and lo train them in general orchard management will be provided.