Money Well Spent
F you address a letter to Ruakura State Farm, the reply will point out to you politely that such a place no longer exists. This estate near Hamilton is now*Ruakura Animal Research Station. Dr. C. P. McMeekan, its superintendéent, speaking from 1YA the other night, made no apology for insisting on the distinction. The view is commonly held that a farm should pay its way; Ruakura will cost money. To what end? Dr. McMeekan, with admirable and effective honesty, promised nothing spectacular, though he hopes, as every research worker does, that the long years of drudgery and even disappointment will be compensated for by one or two golden discoveries. By lowering the incidence of sterility in herds, by raising the average butter-fat output or the expectation of life of the average New Zealand cow, this country would put a few extra millions in its pocket. Ruakura has these matters, among others, on its agenda, and there was something in the sterri’and uncompromising way in which Dr. McMeekan spoke that made one feel they were in very good hands.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 9
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181Money Well Spent New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 9
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