Farming the Hill-Country
CIENCE and the hill-country farmer will be discussed by Dr. J. Melville, Director of the Grasslands Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, in Science Commentary for April. As announced last month this feature is now being heard in the National/Programme at 1.30 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month, and Dr. Melville will be heard on April 3. Dr. Melville, who succeeded Sir Bruce Levy as Director of the Grasslands Division, joined the D.S.I.R. before the war, going first to the Wheat Research Institute. An Otago boy, he had graduated: earlier from Otago University and taken a Ph.D. at the Imperial College of Science, London. Under a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship he had also carried out research in the United States. Since the war he has paid another visit to America to study antibiotics. Before taking up his present post, Dr. Melville was Director of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Palmerston North.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 23
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157Farming the Hill-Country New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 23
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