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THE eleventh annual report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand, covers the year 1936-37, and, in addition to the secretary's report and the reports of the research committees of the Council, includes the reports of the Dominion Laboratory, the Geological Survey Branch, the Meteorological Branch and the Dominion, Apia and Magnetic Observatories. The Minister's covering statement refers to the establishment of a Bureau of Social Science Research, the work of which will include the co-ordination of the activities of research bodies or individuals in this field and the undertaking of investigations to assist the Government by providing the factual bases for social policy measures. Outstanding developments of the year were the reorganization of plant research under the Plant Research Bureau and the steps taken to establish an Animal Research Bureau. The Plant Diseases Division of the former Bureau has made good progress in the study of virus diseases of farm crops, particularly tobacco, and has also completed comparative trials of new organic mercury dusts. Diseases of tomatoes and potatoes, etc., have also been investigated, and the Entomological Division of the Bureau has obtained satisfactory results in the biological control of the white butterfly, although new lines of attack for the control of the diamond black moth have been necessary. The Dairy Research Institute has made further progress in its study of the control of gas-producing organisms which cause openness in cheese, and has continued its studies of the elimination of the feed taint in butter and cream from certain districts.
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Scientific Research in New Zealand. Nature 141, 638 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141638a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141638a0