THE CAWTHORN INSTITUTE.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO AGRICULTURAL. PROBLEMS. (From Our Own Correspondent), Wellington, Jan 30. Some information regarding the Caw-tin-on Institute, which is to be established near Nelson, was placed before tiie Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute by the. president (Professor Benham). The trustees appointed to administer the Cawthron bequest appointed a commission to draw up a scheme for the working of the Institute, and they are now working on the lines laid down by this commission The Institute would be erected when the war was ended close to the city of Nelson, said Professor Benham. The work undertaken would be scientific research into the problems of agriculture, particularly as affecting the growing of fruit. It was hoped that in the future agricultural problems of all kind* would be studied at the Institute—the testing of trees, the improvement of culture, the chemistry and physics of soils, the development of forest trees, etc. The work might be extended in other directions. Hitherto no institution in New Zealand has been wholly or even mainly given up to scientific research. The Cawthron Institute would be equipped organised and financed for this purpose alone. The sum of money at the disposal of the trustees was about £200,000, and the trustees, who for the moat part were business men, were determined that the annual expenses should not exceed the income from the principal. The interest that was now accumulating would be used to erect the necessary buildings after the Director had been appointed and in consv.!i'it;c'. , . with him. The site had already been purchased and surveyed.
The control of the Institute, added Professor Benham, would bo undertaken under the supervision of the trustees by an advisory board acting with the Director. The 'bodies represented on the advisory board would be the Cawthron trustees, the Board of Agriculture, the Nelson Institute, the Board of Studies of the New Zealand University and the Governors of the New Zealand Institute. It was hoped to secure as Director, a first-class chemist from England, font this appointment probably would not be made before the end of the war. The full staff would include experts in plant physiology and plant pathology, and economic zoology nnd geology, but that would bo in the future. The Director at tho outset would be assisted by a plant pathologist and an orehardist," to whom adequate salaries would be paid. Provision would be made for the award of scholarships and' every encouragement would be given to students properly qualified to pursue research in agricultural matters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1918, Page 6
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422THE CAWTHORN INSTITUTE. Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1918, Page 6
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